lo fares clawbade
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, QUICK response to the Govern's Green Paper proposing a nationscheme for concessionary fares for ..1derly, blind and disabled, (CM lary 23), Shelagh Roberts, leader of lreater London Council's Planning :ommunications Policy Committee, 'we are not going to claw back any le concessions London's senior ns enjoy."
e pointed out that the GLC's own ne is superior to the Government's 3sals for minimum concessions, but emphasised that her committee would not expect ratepayers to subsidise travel for elderly visitors to London.
"If the Government wants us to extend our scheme, they must foot the bill," she said.
The GLC provides its senior citizens with free off-peak travel on buses and charges them a maximum of 20p off-peak on the Underground. Individual boroughs provide concessions for the blind and handicapped.