Hey ttbn,
"You will be annoyed to know that Seniors - i.e anyone over 60 but not working, not just OAPs - including wealthy Green superannuants can travel FREE on all public transport every day of the week between 9am and 3pm in SA."

These are they types of socialist policies that I don't mind, even actually support;
These are the benefits that the entire nation could've had if government business were run properly and not run into the ground and sold off.

AC agree it makes us a better world to let such things happen
You however will need to convince some fairness and equity is ok

Same here Belly. The nearest bus, other than school buses exclusively for school kids is 26 kilometers from here. Not much use, no matter how cheap. I last rode a bus in 1984, & it was such a lousy form of transport I have not repeated the experience

The train is in the same place, & much more useful, particularly the airport train. I used trains to go to pick up my last sports car purchase, 6 years ago. It was useful, but as I was not going to the city center it was rather annoying. Two changes of train, & 4 hours to do the trip across the city, which took just one hour & 25 minutes to reverse in the car, even at peak hour. To suggest public transport is a viable alternative to the private car is simply a bad joke.

I don't know how elderly handle shopping by bus, there is no way I could carry a weeks shopping to a bus stop, or home from a stop. Going daily would be a real pain.

I remember my mother shopping in the 50s. She did not drive, so like many others, she dragged a thing like a golf bag on wheels over a mile each way along a mostly gravel road each week. I got the meat daily coming home from school. Not a chore for the elderly.

Public transport seems only for our city brethren, & then really only if your destination is the city center.

Very true Hasbeen and if you could leave your car at the railway station while you went away it would not be there when you returned
Even closer to city stations are seeing few car parking spaces and many stolen in the day
Public transport is only a word it does not exist out side city's