YES - ALEX DELANEY, chair, British Youth Council
The cost, accessibility, and availability of public transport continue to be barriers to young people accessing not only employment and education opportunities but also positive activities.
One in four young people told us in our recent Weathering the Recession report that travel issues had held them back from doing something constructive with their leisure time. It's not fair or right that young people do not have equality of opportunity to get from A to B.
NO - PATRICK NOLAN, chief economist, Reform
Looking at the experience of free transport for pensioners, we found that this was an incredibly expensive subsidy that was using money that could be better spent improving the transport infrastructure.
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