23/01/2017
Kaye asks if the age of eligibility for free bus passes should be raised and if listeners will be changing their diets after burnt toast and potatoes were labelled a 'cancer risk'.
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Transport Scotland has confirmed that there is going to be a public consultation on the age in which people in Scotland will qualify for a bus pass.
It is understood current holders of the free bus pass will be unaffected but the programme for government said that it would "examine options to safeguard the longer-term sustainability of the concessionary travel scheme".
Free bus passes for the over 60s is one of the scottish government's flagship policies....but can we afford it?
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