Nottingham Post published Robert Howard: Time to end 'The Twirlies' on buses?

Robert Howard, a blogger from Beeston, says bus travel concessions should be aimed at the young, not the old. There is not a bus driver in the land who has not heard someone, somewhere, ask, "Am I too early?". Over the decades this has morphed into, "Am I twirly?". The origin of concessionary bus fares can be traced back to the late-1920s, and by 1955, a total of 26 municipal transport undertakings were offering some form of concessionary travel to residents in the...