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OK, so there is an incidental benefit to the children of travel at weekends. However, I was in London with my friend and her three children recently. They used the underground service for free, so the Kent pass isn't as good as you are making it out to be. It is unfair to double the price of a service for children; this is another example of the rich and powerful stuffing the poorer classes.
And it is wrong to try to dress this up as GOOD NEWS. It is bad news for all parents of school age children who NEED to use public transport. Generally this will be the less well-off, or those who work long hours and are unable to join the school run.
Sorry to be offended by this, but I get so annoyed by politicians who stuff us over and then say, ahhh, its ok, its good news really. It just goes to show how easily a lie can pass their lips.
And your comment about not all people having children is true. But I do not suppose a single one of those people will be upset at having to pay into the community for GOOD education and the bettering of the next generation. They are, after all, the ones who will be paying our pensions and their taxes will be keeping the infrastructure running in the future. You could just as easily have said, 'not all people have house-fires, yet pay through their taxes for the fire service'. It is an irrelevant remark.
