City OAPs won't lose free train travel.SENIOR citizens will still be able to travel free on trains in Coventry, despite government moves to only provide free travel on the nation's buses. Councillors have slammed the nationwide bus pass scheme, which begins in 2008, for providing over 60s with free travel passes only available on buses. And transport bosses have pledged to continue to give the region's OAPs one of the country's best free services (O.Eng. Law) such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. See also: Free . Travel will continue to be free on all modes of transport in the West Midlands, including trains and Midland Metro The Midland Metro is a light-rail or tram system in the West Midlands of England. It runs between the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton via West Bromwich and Wednesbury. , as has been the case for many years. Cllr Gary Clarke, chairman of Centro- PTA PTA or parent-teacher association: see parent education. , said: "It is nonsense that trains and trams are not included in the national scheme. "They are an essential part of the integrated public transport system in the West Midlands and the UK as a whole." |
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