Issue - meetings

Concessionary Bus Fares

Meeting: 18/10/2005 - Cabinet (Item 5.)

Concessionary Bus Fares

Decision:

226/2005 The Cabinet agreed the following preferred options for consultation:
a) That the Council should continue to participate in the Kent and Medway Countywide Concessionary Fares Consortium for the operation of concessionary fares.
b) That users should continue to be offered the option of half-fare travel before 9.00 am with a charge for the issue of the pass.
c) That companions will continue to be allowed to travel at the concessionary rate where they are needed by the bus pass holder.

227/2005 The Cabinet delegated authority to the Director of Regeneration and Development, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Front Line Services, to agree the draft scheme statement at the November meeting of the consortium for publication by 1 December 2005.