Join calls for free travel under -22S

Young people have a “forcible recovery” cost of the BBC to the BBC means that they struggle to pay low and rent.

A report by MPs has recommended everyone under 22 years of age. Free bus trip should be received To help them work and education – similar to Scotland.

The Transport Department says that it is already “spending £ 1BN in multi-year funding to improve the credibility and frequency of bus services across the country”.

But the BBC has heard from people of the age of 22 and who says that just fare is very expensive and eat in their food budget.

The 18 -year -old Massey stays in a covantry with Mozenkivi, her mother, father and brother, and travels about two hours to go to college four days a week.

Maisy, due to its autism, is just a disability, which means that she pays less for travel than her friends. However, she still spends £ 8 per day on going to college as her free travel allowance kicks only after 09:30, he needs to be half an hour later.

She says she spends on travel, in which she spends on food and snacks throughout the day.

“Sometimes, when I finish college, I am really hungry and just want to get a meal deal or something for the way to the house, but it is so expensive above everything. I am very lucky that I can go home and my family can feed me, but not everyone has it.”

If the bus was free, Massey says that she would be able to do more socialization, and would save for “luxury items”.

“I know it does not seem like a big thing, or an essential item, but one day, I would like to save for a juicy couture tracksuit,” he said.

The 22 -year -old Gracie Moore lives in Slaw and holds the bus from work and work every day, which costs £ 120 per month.

“For someone who is not earning much from the minimum wage, it is quite a significant expense,” Gracie says that the administration works as an assistant for a care home firm.

She says that it becomes difficult for young people to navigate jobs and social lives at a high cost of travel.

She says that the cost of the journey is “absolutely” a factor that prevents him from going out of his family’s house.

“I have less freedom like this, but I am paying very little.”

Gracie first lived in Madrid, where he enjoyed unlimited journey on bus, train, tubes and trams for only € 8 (£ 6.90) with a young man’s travel card.

She says, “I do not understand how other countries of Europe have subsidized it so well, how it is very forcibly recovery,” she says. “I don’t know how the price of transport here can be appropriate.”

Originally Nepal, 20 -year -old Nikita Upmati, is an international student at University College Birmingham. She says that the rising price of the journey means that paying for your bus every month is getting “difficult”.

When Nikita first moved to Birmingham in September 2024, a student had a monthly bus pass cost of £ 49 with a discount. Now, its price is £ 53.

“The student discount is no longer helping us,” she says.

Nikita also works as a waitress 20 hours a week. Despite working maximum hours, his university will allow him to allow him while studying, he still struggles to pay his rent, increasing the rising cost of life.

She says that the free bus trip will “be a big difference in her life”.

“I can spend the money saved on grocery items and the things that will help in my education. It will be really useful.”