This year, a group of youth and environmental charities including NCB and the British Youth Council have joined forces with the Campaign for Better Public Transport to call for improved transport for young people.
Young representatives spoke at a bus seminar at the House of Commons in February and later produced a film, which was presented to the Education Secretary Michael Gove in June.
Lily Coulstock-Cockeram, 16, a Young NCB member from Cambridge, spoke at the House of Commons and helped to produce the film. "One hundred per cent of the bus subsidy for young people is being cut by the council in my area," she says. "In my friend's village, they're talking about cutting the bus service that takes them to college."
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