Old people get free bus travel in the UK (availability outside your local area varies but is usually fairly complete), there's the occasional story of someone t

Old people get free bus travel in the UK (availability outside your local area varies but is usually fairly complete), there's the occasional story of someone travelling the length and breadth of the country for free I don't recall any reports of a paying passenger being unable to board a bus because of it though, so if the bus is going to run anyway, simply tax wealthy pensioners a little more and use that to subdise any loss in revenue (of course the government would never put a tax on wealthy pensioners, that's what working people are for!)