Ahhh I’m not sure you know! I know that there was some definitely changes few years back as I’ll never forget theAh I didn't realise the disabled pass was called a disabled freedom pass. Seems odd to call two very different schemes both a type of freedom pass. Seems like it's putting the covid changes in effect to be perm.
I remember in Newcastle they changed the pensioner scheme to ask for a £20 admin fee once every 5 years to get the card for free unlimited travel on the buses, trains, metro and people took to the streets with their outrage
Changes to Freedom Pass Travel Times
From Wednesday 18 January 2023, the temporary suspension of free travel for Older Person's Freedom Pass and 60+ London Oyster photocard holders between 04:30 and 09:00 on weekdays, which was put in place during the pandemic, will become permanent.
This is unashamedly bitchy but one of the worst offenders for whinging about parking fees or things like this lives in a £1.25mil house so I do wonder if it’s just something for miserable ppl to complain about sometimes? Similarly with ULEZ, I find it so difficult to believe in a time/place where property starts at half a mil people have not been able to trade their non compliant car in or just stomach the fee. There was lots of Facebook group am dram like thanks to ULEZ I couldn’t afford to see my DYING MOTHER. Really? Like there’s a bus every 3 mins hun I think it’s £2.40? Get an Uber? I more than get that we pay enough in taxes and council tax etc but the country has been mismanaged to such a degree for the last decade that sadly paying more for *everything* is inevitable.