{"id":357385,"date":"2026-01-07T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357385\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:10:09","slug":"freedom-pass-free-travel-for-older-londoners-could-be-cut-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357385\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Pass free travel for older Londoners could be cut back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Access to free travel across the capital could be reduced after London Councils confirmed it was planning to carry out a review of the Older Person&#8217;s Freedom Pass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The body, which represents London&#8217;s 32 boroughs and the City of London, is concerned about the rising expense for councils of delivering the scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said no changes were currently planned, but one of the ideas that has been suggested was to limit free transport for over 66-year-olds to buses only. By doing so, it could save London councils over \u00a3100m a year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Freedom Pass allows those aged over 66 free travel on buses, the Tube, trams, DLR, London Overground, the Elizabeth line and most National Rail services in the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Access to free travel across the capital could be reduced after London Councils confirmed it was planning to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-357385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}