Should children and old people pay double fare instead of free travel on the bus?

Question

Children make too much noise and keep ringing the bell to make the driver mad. Old people take too long to get on and off and slow everyone up.

Answer 1

Funny question! I had never thought about it but maybe they should.

From what I've observed, kids these days are ultra-spoiled -- at least the middle-class and haute bourgeois ones are: Their parents give them tons of money and just stuff in general.

Old people are collecting what's left in Social Security.

Neither kids or old people are likely paying off a mortgage or paying rent ... (or earning wages that go to support Social Security).

Maybe you're on to something! The question, after all, is not if old people and children should be allowed to ride the bus, just if they should have to pay more. Why should we assume that old people and children are economically disadvantaged?

If parents knew their kids couldn't ride the bus free (and get tons of other financial breaks just because they're parents), maybe they'd think twice before reproducing. Don't you think there are enough of us humans on this beleaguered planet anyway?

Also, by the way, all of the fares combined, no matter who they come from, only pay a fraction of what it cost to run public transit so one could make the argument that everyone should get a free ride since (a) that might encourage ridership, get more cars off the road, and decrease global warming and (b) maybe all this dickering over the fare just isn't worth everybody's time and trouble.

Answer 2

Nah, I think everyone should be treated equally regardless of age or whatever. It would help if the kids behaved, and the elderlies would move a little quicker, but that's just the way life is. Kids can't help being kids, but the responsibility should fall on the parents. Maybe they should get charged more if they don't watch their kids : )
If anything, it just shows you that old people need help. When we're old, we're gonna be hoping for the same thing, and not that tehy charge is double for our fees when we ride the bus. Which is gonna happen guaranteed. Time is the only one thing we can't slow down. So yeah, parents should watch their kids like parents are supposed to do, and the maybe we should think about helping the elderly a little more. : )

Answer 3

Well, remember that you were once that age (young) and will be that age (old). It can be troublesome, but doubling fare wouldn't solve any problems. Older people are on fixed incomes and children have no income. If the children are disruptive, then the driver should speak up or a passenger. The parents need to control their children and the elderly should be afforded some patience. The elderly don't like going as slow as they do.

Answer 4

Yes, Joe, of course we should penalize them heavily for not being strong capable healthy able-bodied adults. We should never give up our seats either, especially to an old woman past her prime, who cares if she raised 7 children by scrubbing floors at night after her husband was killed in WW2 or VietNam to make a safe country for us to live in. Who cares if that child sits safely in a seat, let him fall when the bus rounds a corner, he'll learn to keep quiet and out of the way of the 'real' people. Who cares if that old lady falls and breaks a hip trying to board the bus, carrying her meager week's groceries home? Let's just shoot her and be done with it! The world belongs to the strong and healthy! Let's hear it for Joe, who was never a child, and will never grow old and feeble, what a great idea!

Answer 5

Absolutely not. Children and the elderly are the most vulnerable members of our society. They both need to be cared for and protected. Every hear the saying, "Once a man, twice a child". A child can't handle financial burdens and the elderly have enough to fancially try to handle.

You question should be, "Can't we pass laws to hold the parents of rowdy children financially accountable on buses?" and "What can I do to make getting on and off the bus more speedy for the elderly?"

One day you might be that old person just trying to get from point a to point b.

Answer 6

Poor you ...get a car!!!!!!!! Or find someone to car pool! Old people shouldn't be able to drive...Would you like to be driving behind an old person? I think not! Leave them be! Let em ride the bus! Plus, people who don't have a car and have children, let them be too! Let the bus driver handle them and all the noise! The adults should stop the kids from pulling that string...Some people can't afford to have a car b/c they have kids so let it be...GARSH DARN IT!

Answer 7

Dont be so horrible. The elderly should trvel for free, why shouldn't they? Theyve done enough to warrent a free bus pass for goodness sake and as for the children at a certain age they dont realise that they get on peoples nerves.

I agree that school age should pay their way but no youngrer than that.

Answer 8

If you did this you would have to let them have driving licences so they could get about and think about the increase in death and carnage (just in the car park)!!!

Everyone should have free bus travel, Lord knows they make enough money out of other motorists to pay for it!

Answer 9

No, pensioners should get free travel but schoolchildren should . have to pay their fare like I had to when I was at school, it actually made me walk more often to save money and while the kids are travelling for free now they are taking up spaces on the buses to go just one stop! (Lazy sods!)

Answer 10

i think of that youngsters and the elderly use the bus by way of fact they think of it particularly is safer, it particularly is out in the open and that they are in a position to confirm the place they are going by way of fact issues are ordinary to them. while vacationing on the underground it could grow to be very disorientating and perplexing and there are no focal factors so you might look at to confirm once you're on the superb direction or no longer.