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BBC News
3 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Tiger Pass vote to take place on continuing £1 youth bus fares
A vote is set to take place on extending a scheme offering young people cut-price bus Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) board, which involves the mayor and council leaders, is set to agree on extending the Tiger Pass scheme until the end of passes have been used for more than one million journeys since May 2024 and give under-25s access to £1 fares on a single bus journey.A report being presented to the board's meeting on Tuesday has recommended including bus journeys that cross county borders and discusses ways to make the scheme permanent. Extending Tiger Passes would be funded by a £1.4m pot originally meant for the local fare cap, as well as £300,000 in local £2.50 fare cap would be ended in September, as opposed to December, to fund the CPCA previously said: "Without action, £1 fares for the under-25s will cease."An original proposal to extend the Tiger Pass, but remove the fare for cross-boundary journeys, was voted down by Cambridgeshire County Beckett, the leader of the authority's highways and transport committee, said the move would risk "isolating rural communities".He said: "We blocked these proposals because they would have hit young people hard."Paul Bristow, the Mayor for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, said: "[This] is an opportunity to keep the pass going for the rest of this financial year, while we develop options for a permanent pass." Follow East of England news on X, Instagram and Facebook: BBC Beds, Herts & Bucks, BBC Cambridgeshire, BBC Essex, BBC Norfolk, BBC Northamptonshire or BBC Suffolk.
BBC News
07-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough authority look into £180 bus route
An authority is looking into reasons why a rural bus route cost £180.32 per passenger to run last number 15 between Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire and Royston, Hertfordshire, cost £50,668.61 in the year to April 2025 and carried 281 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) published the data ahead of a meeting looking into ways to fund its Tiger Pass discounted scheme for young authority is planning on ending a cap on local bus fares early to extend £1 bus travel for under-25s, which it said "without action ... will cease". Six bus routes in Cambridgeshire cost more than £50 per passenger to run last year, according to a report being presented to the CPCA on Tuesday, including: The 8A between March and Cottenham (£100.33 per passenger)The 13B between Nosterfield End and Linton (£98.47 per passenger)The 31 between Cambridge and Fowlmere (£76.89 per passenger)The 26 between Royston and Cambridge (£71.76 per passenger)And 68 between St Ives bus station and Boxworth (£59.48 per passenger)An additional three on-demand routes launched in January, which meant data did not cover the full year, cost £180.11 per passenger in South Cambridgeshire, £74.11 in East Cambridgeshire and £65.68 in report said it was also investigating why annual passenger numbers on the once-weekly number 15 bus had dropped from 400 to 281 in a services became better value to run, including the number18 between Newmarket and Teversham, which was £27.93 cheaper per passenger than the year before. At Tuesday's meeting, the CPCA will discuss ways to extend the Tiger Pass scheme beyond this autumn to March, at an expected cost of £ transport committee will also discuss ways to make the scheme extend Tiger Passes, it will be asked to axe the locally-funded £2.50 bus fare cap earlier than planned, in CPCA is planning to franchise the region's bus network, meaning it will eventually take control of fares, routes, timetables and service standards.A Combined Authority spokesperson said: "Under the budget set in January 2025, the local fare cap is already due to end in December and funding for the current, temporary Tiger Pass, will run out in November. "Without action, £1 fares for the under-25s will cease."A final decision on the plans will be made by the CPCA board on 22 July. Follow East of England news on X, Instagram and Facebook: BBC Beds, Herts & Bucks, BBC Cambridgeshire, BBC Essex, BBC Norfolk, BBC Northamptonshire or BBC Suffolk.
BBC News
13-06-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Cambridgeshire's Tiger pass £1 fares must be 'fully costed'
A mayoral authority said there was "clear and unanimous" support for making a scheme that gave young people cheaper bus fares Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) added that extending the Tiger pass beyond the autumn would need to be "fully costed".It came after Labour East claimed the pass - which gave under-25s £1 fares - was under threat and set up a petition to save it.A spokesperson for the CPCA, which is led by Conservative mayor Paul Bristow, said there had been a "misunderstanding" over decisions made at a meeting on 4 June and there was "unanimous desire to retain the pass". The CPCA spokesperson said: "At the recent board meeting, there was a clear and unanimous desire to retain the pass in a permanent form."However, any permanent scheme must be both sustainable and fully costed. "The transport committee has therefore been asked to explore and evaluate viable options to achieve this."The Tiger pass has been used for more than one million journeys and gives £1 fares on a single bus journey to children and young people under the age of the meeting, a recommendation backed by Bristow to use money raised from the bus fare cap to continue the Tiger pass until March 2026 was voted East set up a petition, claiming that Bristow had refused to rule out who has previously confirmed his plan to keep the Tiger pass scheme going, did not wish to respond to Labour's claims.A paper outlining options for the future of the pass will be presented to the CPCA's transport and infrastructure committee on 25 June. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
