Puedo decirles con confianza que el transporte público es vital para los estudiantes que necesitan viajar a la escuela, colegios o universidades. Muchos jóvenes de 16 o 17 años todavía están completando su educación, y hacerles pagar tarifas de adulto los disuadirá de usar estos servicios. Si eres menor de 16 años y pagas tarifas infantiles, los billetes de tren son relativamente baratos, por ejemplo. Trenes del Norte Limitada puede ofrecer un pase de temporada educativo que da hasta 75% de descuento en un abono educativo that can even be used to that destination on school holidays. I did my research and I found that a year’s season ticket from 1st September – 31st August costs £191 which is extremely cheap compared to buses for example. Now, if you are over 16 I did the calculation too, to the same location a return train ticket would cost £4.70. Now you may have noticed that doesn’t include the 16-17 railcard saver which costs £30 per year and claims to knock up to 50% off train fares. If this was the case and I took 50% off £4.70 I would be left with £2.35 which if I calculate to how many days there are in a school year which is 195 then we would realise that £2.35*195 = £458.25 then you need to add the £30 on top for the rail card which gives a grand total of £488.25. This is more than double the price of the child season ticket even without the 16-17 railcard fee on top and it doesn’t include travelling to that specific destination on holidays. Despite the fact child fares are half adult ones. Just to put this amount of money into perspective, the minimum wage for a 16-17 year old is £5.28. In order to obtain a years worth of tickets to school for example they would have to work 92.5 hours which is a lot and would take around 2 weeks of full-time work for their age group to pay off when grown adults can earn this in around half the time on their minimum wage of £10.42. On the other hand, despite these public transport providers being greedy for money there are some people that refuse to pay these fares and go Evasión de tarifas if they know they can get away with it. If prices were more reasonable I don’t think as many people would have such a problem with it.

However, hope isn’t all lost. If you are a loyal customer and have had passes in the past, you may be able to contact them and see what options they can give you.