Thursday, April 8, 2010

Moronic US culture dumps on Blagojevich while EU seeks progress

Over 66s free travel pass should be extended Europe-Wide

Posted by Andy White on April 07, 2010 at 01:46 PM

The EU should provide free public transport to all senior citizens, by extending the successful Irish model to all 27 EU member states, Nessa Childers MEP has told the EU Transport Commissioner today.

"I proposed today to the new Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas the extension of free public transport for older people across the EU. Regardless of what country they come from, are living in or are even visiting, older people across Europe should have those same basic set of transport entitlements as their Irish counterparts. What better place to start than an EU-wide bus & train pass?  Nessa Childers