No! Kids should learn at a very early age to contribute and give of
themselves we live in a take and thankless world and I think ,Ken
livingstone (The Mayor) has made a BIG MISTAKE that will haunt him or
his childrens, children in years to come, I beleive that anybody over
the age of 50 should travel free because they are more likely to have
made a contribution to society than some snotty 15 year old kid.

I was under the impression, perhaps the wrong impression, that the idea was
to encourage children to make more use of public transport with the hope
they will carry on using it as adults. If they already needed to use public
transport for their school journeys then it seems to me that making it free
isn't really doing all that much to further this aim. Free bus journeys in
the evenings and weekends and outside peak periods in holiday times would be
more appropriate. I also believe that kids need to learn to contribute and
paying for their bus fares to and from school would be an excellent example.

In my experience providing children with free bus journeys has made travel
on some bus routes miserable for other passengers at the ends of the school
day. It encourages children to bundle onto buses via rear doors instead of
queuing at the front door with others and it has also encouraged them to use
the bus for journeys of just one stop which they would be unlikely to do if
paying.