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      <title>Mr Raymond Charlton [Signature #173]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:19:12 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss MICHELLE ALLISON [Signature #172]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss MICHELLE ALLISON, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE<p>how long will it be before education suffers the cost of my child getting 2 buses to school and then home again is scandalous!!! and the goverment want more people to use public transport.......this is not going to happen with fares rising this much.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 8 May 2007 01:11:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Laura Jayne Brown [Signature #171]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Laura Jayne Brown, Manchester<p>I&#039;d like to say, sort out the bus schedules and the times in which people are waiting on the bus for drivers to arrive at change over before increasing the prices of the bus fares because more and more people will end up evading using the bus!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Jordan Kerley [Signature #170]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Jordan Kerley, Middleton<p>we&#039;re students, we&#039;re poor</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 8 May 2007 03:24:06 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr Martin Jarvis [Signature #169]</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 8 May 2007 03:18:43 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Daniel Craig [Signature #168]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 5 May 2007 05:55:46 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Michael Areola [Signature #167]</title>
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      <title>mrs julie martin [Signature #166]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs julie martin, Mossley<p>I have three sons attending school and college and to raise the fare by 40% is an outrage. I now pay &pound;21 per week  instead of &pound;15. How can this be justified?<br />
Julie Martin</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr andrew waugh [Signature #165]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:51:29 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr kane codd [Signature #164]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:50:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Daniel Hylton [Signature #163]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Daniel Hylton, Oldham<p>we&#039;re students, we&#039;re poor.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:23:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Daniel Hylton [Signature #162]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:23:41 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Daniel Hylton [Signature #161]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Daniel Hylton, Oldham<p>we&#039;re students, we&#039;re poor.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:23:16 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Andrew Clayton [Signature #160]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Andrew Clayton, Manchester<p>were students were poor.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:23:16 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr john hoare, Manchester<p>Why do old people get on for free. We should because were are the future, they are old people they have no future.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>ms Beth Fisher [Signature #157]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:13:29 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms zara gibson [Signature #156]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:12:11 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss Samantha Stott [Signature #155]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss Samantha Stott, Oldham<p>70p is far to expensive for people who do not get any financial help to get to and from school/college!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>dr charlotte taylor [Signature #154]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[dr charlotte taylor, oldham<p>bus fare is tooooooooooooo dear frm dr charlotte xxxxxxx put it back to 40p the price now is ridiculous xxxxxxxxx</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:11:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Louise !!! [Signature #153]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Louise !!!, Oldham<p>How do you expect students to afford to pay &pound;1.40 a day to get to and from college when some students found it hard to afford &pound;1 a day. Some students get 4 buses a day and it&#039;s too much money when students are only in part- time work on a minimal wage, or no work at all. We need this money for books and clothes. It&#039;s gone up far too much.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Diane Bolan [Signature #152]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Diane Bolan, Scouthead oldham<p>This is down to the greed of the bus companies.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:37:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss grace ashton [Signature #151]</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:22:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss Jessica Kilroy [Signature #150]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss Jessica Kilroy, Lancs<p>This is ridiculous!!!!!!!! The charges should be kept the same as!!People will end up stopping using this service due to the ridiculous charges!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:18:52 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Rachel Lole [Signature #149]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Rachel Lole, Oldham<p>It should go back to 50p!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:01:53 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss Jenny longden [Signature #148]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss Jenny longden, manchester<p>Im a single mother and a student and cannot afford for bus fares to go up. If they do go up then surely EMA and other benefits must go up aswell!!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>miss Vicky Miller [Signature #147]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss Vicky Miller, manchester<p>students can not afford the bus fare to go up to a pound. It is ridiculous</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:54:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss jayneeeeey thompson [Signature #146]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss jayneeeeey thompson, oldham<p>i refuse to pay 70p on the bloody bus grrr</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:04:44 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss chelsea williams [Signature #145]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss chelsea williams, oldham<p>soon it will be cheaper to get taxis or have your own car</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:58:53 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss hayley shelley [Signature #144]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss hayley shelley, Oldham<p>Its unfair, i can&#039;t afford it!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:02:41 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>MR Sam Addy [Signature #143]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MR Sam Addy, Oldham<p>Absolute joke!! Which arseholes make these things up??????</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:33:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Katie Jones [Signature #142]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Katie Jones, Oldham]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:47:39 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss kavita prajapati [Signature #141]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss kavita prajapati, manchester<p>its daylight robbery this. scandalous. tut tut</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:59:57 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Anonymous [Signature #140]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Oldham<p>i travel to and from college each day and the extra 40p that is needed for the 70p bus fare all adds up !!!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:59:08 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Dave Brown [Signature #139]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Dave Brown, Oldham<p>I had a Dream! in it the consessianary fare was back to 50p, nuff sed.</p>

<p>!!MaKe ThE dReAm ReAlItY!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:54:01 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr tom schofield [Signature #138]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr tom schofield, Chadderton<p>Some of my freinds have to pay up to &pound;3 a day ro get to and from college and the over 60&#039;s pay nothing. you cant just assume that we have got richer overnight. GET IT SORTED!!!!!!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:09:08 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Daniel Wood [Signature #137]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Daniel Wood, Oldham<p>I remember once when my mother said to Mr Bus Driver &quot;27 please&quot;... over the years it has changed from 27p to 30p to 40p to 50p</p>

<p>Now 50p was a good plateau to keep the prices on but then it raised to 70p</p>

<p>What next... a pound bus fair?</p>

<p>No wonder no-one gets the bus and gets a car.. if they stop listening to their accountants and used some initiative they will find out they will get a profit if they lower bus prices.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Jen Gooding, Oldham<p>itss too much !!1</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:41:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:39:15 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Elizabeth Langford [Signature #134]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Elizabeth Langford, Chadderton<p>It is ridiculous to have to pay 70p when the over 60&#039;s get on fro free. My local MP said that the increase in fare is to improve the buses but how can this be true when the old people are getting on for free. I am especially angry as I have to stand up on the bus to and from college so if the fare is going to increase i would like to see major improvements to the bus service. many of my friends agree</p>]]></description>
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      <title>miss emma senior [Signature #133]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:55:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Rachael Mallalieu, Manchester<p>Its ridiculous why should we have to pay for older people getting on the bus!! They are just as capable to pay for thire travel as we are!!!!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:13:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Lisa Bulley, Oldham<p>I think that the bu soul belowered a at the end of April it is also going u yet again t 85p</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:59:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Connah Green [Signature #129]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Erin Heywood, Oldham<p>I am writing an article on this in my AimHigher class at college; although you have given me inspiration to have a justified rant about something, public transport should not be a chore.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Rebecca Stanway, Oldham<p>If the goverment would like the public to choose &#039;green&#039; alternatives, rather than using cars, surely the bus prices ought to be reasonable.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss Lisa Gardiner, Oldham<p>it costs far to much to travel than it should do</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:30:47 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Nicola Dransfield [Signature #124]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Nicola Dransfield, Oldham<p>I think 50p was a fair price as a pound to and from college was a reasonable price and 70p is a big difference.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Rick Cooper, oldham<p>a 20p rise is unjust and unfair</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:40:06 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Kathrine Carr, Oldham<p>This is ridiculous, 70p to get on the bus, when we stand up anyway, and the people that get on for free pay nothing!!! why do we pay to stand up??? Plus they are so rude, when we have problems and we need to sit down, this is stupid, i havnt got the money to pay 70p for 3 buses every day!!!! SORT IT OUT!!!!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Terri Rhatigan, Oldham<p>it is true that we are just paying for all those lay abouts to get free travel! GMPTE are just being greedy now with the bus fares increasing all the time, THEY WANT TO SORT IT OUT!! change the bus fare back to 50p because thats simpler than 70p!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Miss Kelsie Milner [Signature #120]</title>
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      <title>Miss Jess Marsden [Signature #119]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Jess Marsden, Oldham<p>It`s all just a bloody disgrace.<br />
Be nice + change it back.<br />
=]</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Miss Kelsie Milner [Signature #118]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:24:50 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Zahra Curtin [Signature #117]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Zahra Curtin, Manchester<p>Throughout my time, the concessionary fare has risen slowly from the 22p I can remember. However this was always in increments of 3 or 5 pence. Going up to 70p is a 40% increase - way beyond the level of inflation. Think about the parents who have children: sending two kids to school will now cost &pound;2.80 per day, or &pound;14 a week (or &pound;56 a month...or &pound;448 for 8 months) This is completely unaffordable for many parents, let alone single parents. What has the world come to...</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Nozrul Ghurry [Signature #116]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Nozrul Ghurry, Manchester<p>70p! that is just unacceptable, from a few penny increases to this, how much will you be increasing it next time?? totally unacceptable.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss louise Taylor, middleton<p>please put it back to 50p its mch easier and we will use it more</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss loopy lintu, Manchester<p>They are telling us to leave the cars at home, they are telling us to use public transport to reduce carbon emmisions but at this rate cars are going to be cheaper to run than getting on the busses! students can only just scrape together the 50p to get on the bus one way and now its gone up to 70p! its rediculus. the busses dont arrive on time, when they do they are packed and leave half of the people behind, they are manky and the drivers are rude! my oppinion... sort out the buses first!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Sam Argyle [Signature #112]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Sam Argyle, oldham<p>i cant afford this bus money, i only earn a small wage doing a paper round for a paper shop this bus fair cuts out nearly a pound of my money leaving me with very little to do anything else with.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Rachel Chalmers, Bury<p>This is a big rise for school children, especially when we are supposed to be encouraging use of public transport.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Droogette Fartface, Manchester<p>I left a message already to this petition. Something along the lines of:<br />
As students, we are obviously not earning full-time rate wages every week or month, and we are poor bastards so the last thing we need is to be prizin our junk food money on gettin us to college and back again!<br />
We&#039;re students for pete&#039;s sake! We dont rationalize money in the way that mature adult people do- we dont have that mental capacity! Show some mercy!!!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>mr Anonymous [Signature #109]</title>
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      <title>Ms Zara Butterworth [Signature #108]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Zara Butterworth, Manchester<p>Bus Fares Should Deffinatey Be Lowered Back to 50p . Or People Might Aswell Get The Train To Places .. Meaning LESS Money For The Busses !</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Councillor Peter Davison [Signature #107]</title>
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      <title>Mr Aaron Muir [Signature #106]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Aaron Muir, Grotton (Oldham)<p>All i have to say is that if the government really cared about global warming, they&#039;d do something about the increasing prices of public travel. The lower the fairs the more people will be willing to use public transportation, by allowing the rise in fairs they&#039;re deterring people from using public travel and towards they&#039;re own cars, vans etc, thus increacing polution.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Harold Shipman [Signature #105]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cllr Wera Hobhouse, Rochdale<p>I support measures to help senior citizens however it shouldn&#039;t be done on the back of our young people.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Peter Blackhouse, Oldham<p>I think that they shouldnt be short changing us so they look as if they are helping the older people when its us who are paying the costs.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Miss Sarcastic Girl [Signature #93]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Sarcastic Girl, Oldham<p>I MIGHT HAS WELL WALK IT.....BLOODY RIDICULOS I SWAER NO WONDER THE BUS DRIVERS GET ABUSE, ITS THERE FAULT, THEY WANT MORE WAGES, ITS NOT THE FACT THAT WE ARE PAYING OLD PEOPLE TO GET ON THE BUS, ITS THE FACT  &pound;9.50 AINTENOIGH FOR THE BUS DRIVERS THANKS. NO WORRIES IM SURE IT WILL RAIN MONEY ONE DAY!! =(</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Miss Charlotte Cody [Signature #92]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Charlotte Cody, Manchester<p>It is unfair that we weren&#039;t allowed a say in old people gettin fare for free and yet we are directly effected by it... Obviously students are going to be 20p richer now.<br />
I used to be able to get 4 buses out of my &pound;2 now I can only get 2. Thanks a lot to GMPTE for not supplying sufficient bus routes in my area and now having to walk for half an hour in the morning and afternoon :)</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Ray Lyles, London<p>So unfair, students have enough expenses and debt.  Why give free travel to over 60s, who have more disposable income?</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms beverly dean, hindley green wigan<p>raising bus fares to 70p is discusting.. that means a child who catches the bus to and from school is paying 40p a day more thats &pound;2.00 a week ..remind me how much did child benefit go up by...exactly</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Tom McNeeney, rochdale<p>not a huge point but i&#039;ve just turned 18 and even in my lifetime i remember the the concessionary fare being 28p, now i fail to see how the respective companies need to inflate that price to being in excess of 150% MORE than a fare i remember in my lifetime. I&#039;m forced to question how in a society which pressures everyone to be &#039;greener&#039; how these companies justify blatently ABUSING those who have no other primary mode of transportation with gross price inflation. BAH !</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr M&iacute;ch&eacute;al MacUidhir, Rochdale<p>Utterly riduculous - Students should travel free, as should the elderly - Tax the rich and spend money on the poor, its difficult enough without being extorted by the public transport companies.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Jamie Thorpe, Manchester<p>It costs me 1140 Per year to get to and from college and work. For some one that is a student and only works part time and has little support from family as they cant afford to it is quiet costly.</p>]]></description>
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