Eligibility for a bus pass

Muttleythefrog

One option of my local authority is if you would be refused a driving licence due to health you can get free pass. If you've an unsupportive GP in this regard I have no idea how practical it is to make a licence application with intention to be refused it (stating problems that challenge the required standards) and whether you'd get the fee back... any advice on that from members might be interesting (to me).

Prinzessilein

My local authority also gives a bus-pass to those who would de refused a driving licence due to health (with certain exceptions...for example, any health condition that was deemed to be caused by alcohol/drug abuse is not deemed grounds for a pass).

You need a GP note to confirm the condition and to state that it precludes you getting a driving licence.

Tommo1980

The DVLA will also conduct their own medical assessment. This was the evidence my council required. A voluntary surrender on the advice of a GP was insufficient.

Tom

deadendwaterfall

Shecar wrote: »

My daughter currently receives the higher rate care and lower mobility (DLA - in the process of migration to PIP)
She has had a bus pass for 10 years ~ when we lived in Essex it could only be used outside of rush hour (no good if you were relying on it for work) Now we live in Wales, she is able to use the one issued by Carmarthenshire Council at all times - so one heck of a lot more useful if you need public transport for work. Unfortunately, we live off of the bus route so she is driven by either myself or her father, and in her case she is unable to use the bus on her own anyway! Despite this we have never been charged for the passes, either in Essex or Wales.

Here in North Lincolnshire, you can use a bus pass any time of the day or night, but one of the local bus operators has been putting pressure on the council to remove that 'discretionary element'. :mad:

teddysmum

Ours are after 9.30am and not after 10.30pm (I think ) which has meant that I have had to change morning hospital appointments , because I won't drive there and pay their extortionate parking fees, to park about half a mile uphill from the entrance.

Shecar

deadendwaterfall wrote: »

Here in North Lincolnshire, you can use a bus pass any time of the day or night, but one of the local bus operators has been putting pressure on the council to remove that 'discretionary element'. :mad:

That's disgusting

................... but unfortunately increasingly typical, it would seem that disabled people are being increasingly bullied in a Country that is bending over backwards to help "others" :mad::mad::mad:

carlislelass

Our disabled bus pass is after 9.30am, considering we have no buses after 5.30pm the rest doesn't count

mrcol1000

When it was brought in, it was stated it was only after 9.30am. The fact some areas allow use before 9.30am is a bonus.

Just be glad it is England wide now. I worked for a local authority in bus services when it first came in and only applied to the district you lived in. I had to work out the final and first bus stop on a number of routes for our district. I also knew about elderly and disabled people having to walk half a mile or so because their nearest bus stop went to a town outside of the district, and so had to walk to a bus stop that took them into a town in their district.

deadendwaterfall

Shecar wrote: »

That's disgusting

................... but unfortunately increasingly typical, it would seem that disabled people are being increasingly bullied in a Country that is bending over backwards to help "others" :mad::mad::mad:

And this local operator even talks down at nearly every person who has a bus pass, even those who have a bus pass but an invisible disability. (I've seen it happen myself many a time, many of my friends have had it happen to them, plus my grandparents).

In fact, one driver even once refuses to take one of my friends to where they wanted to be, because he believed them to be too vulnerable to travel, even though they were a mostly able person, but had an invisible disability hence their bus pass. The driver implied that the person was confused like someone who had dementia and had run away from a care home and the person should get off this bus, and get the bus on the opposite side of the road back to the care home. They don't even live in a care home!

In fact, he refused to get off and just sat there calmly and the driver called the police and the police took him the rest of the way to where he needed to get to.

System

i think it depends on the council

i first got one when my psychiatrist signed the form though i think the criteria has changed and that is no longer a route to one. im waiting on getting a passport so i have ID and going the dvla-banned from driving route.