I’m hugely supportive of a campaign calling for cheaper bus passes for 16 to 18-year-olds in High Peak.
Parents have highlighted frustrations that young people over the border in Manchester are able to access cheaper fares to travel to college, whilst those who travel from inside the Derbyshire border cannot access the same support.
I will be speaking at a public meeting at Glossop Labour Club this Saturday (September 30th) at 9.30am, alongside Labour’s parliamentary candidate for High Peak Jon Pearce and Councillor Damien Greenhalgh (Glossop and Charlesworth). If I’m elected East Midlands Mayor next May, I would work to solve the issue once and for all.
I have already raised this campaign with Greater Manchester’s Andy Burnham, and we’ll take this forward together with the families.