{"id":602641,"date":"2026-05-25T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602641\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:47:08","slug":"how-has-free-bus-travel-for-young-people-worked-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602641\/","title":{"rendered":"How has free bus travel for young people worked in Scotland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Poppy lives in St Andrews during term time and uses the bus network to get to and from classes, as well as making the 50-mile round trip home to Kirkcaldy on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also volunteers with a number of organisations, including the Scouts, Young Scot and Scottish Action for Mental Health, in locations across Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Poppy estimated she would spend at least \u00a325 per week on bus travel without the pass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having the card means I don&#8217;t have to decide what I can and can&#8217;t do,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For work, because I only teach for two or three hours at a time, it&#8217;s not feasible to commute there and earn a wage, I&#8217;d have to spend most of it getting there and back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the same with going to see friends, I can just go and not have to worry about the cost for them or for myself, we can just make the most of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poppy lives in St Andrews during term time and uses the bus network to get to and from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-602641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602641","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=602641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}