The feelgood factor of Burnham’s bus fare cap | Letters

Readers respond to Jonathan Freedland’s article on one of the new prime minister’s first policy announcements in office Jonathan Freedland recounts how when he was 14 years old, Greater London council, led by Ken Livingstone, reduced child fares on the buses to 5p in a scheme called Fares Fair ( Scoff at cheaper bus fares and No 10 North if you like, but Andy Burnham knows what he’s doing, 24 July ). In 1950s Liverpool, the corporation had a scheme for schoolchildren in the holidays whereby they could buy a “penny return” to anywhere on the tram network. You could, for example, travel from the

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