proposed subsidy (per school day)
(expressed as
percentage of
estimated average daily cost)
A
not more than
26,000
NIL
NIL
NIL
1 km
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B
over 1 km but
210,000
$1,00
$0.50
$0.50
not more than
(50%)
3 km
C
over 3 km but
105,000
$1.80
$0.90
$0.90
not more than
(50%)
6 km
D
over 6 km but
76,000
$2.70
$1.30
$1.40
not more than
(52%)
10 km
E
over 10 km but
40,000
$3.50
$1.60
$1.90
not more than 16 km
(54%)
F
over 16 km
11,000
$5,00
$2.00
$3.00
(60%)
The rationale behind the adjusted rates of subsidy
4
The Working Group produced a number of sets of alternative rates of subsidy and bearing in mind the need to make the scheme more acceptable to the public, considered ways of subsidising student travel whereby the majority of secondary students would receive a subsidy of about 50% of the estimated average daily cost at current fare levels to assist them towards meeting their travel expenses. The Working Group achieved this by making the following changes to the previously proposed subsidy levels:
G.S. 166
(a)
by reducing the radius of Zone A from not more than 3 km to not more than 1 km. This would reduce the number of students who would not qualify for any subsidy at all from the previously estimated number of 236,000 (50%) to 26,000 (6% of the secondary student population). Consideration was given to granting a subsidy even to this group of students but it was decided that 1 km 11⁄2 km was not an unreasonable distance for secondary students to walk to school, and it would be wrong through subsidy to encourage short journeys which would contribute to crowding and inconvenience to full-fare-paying passengers;
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