If you need your pass for travelling by train, and won’t be able to visit a Metrolink stop first, travel bosses have suggested it's best you buy from a PayPoint or a TfGM Travelshop. Once you have paid online, you will need to touch-in with your concessionary pass at a Metrolink smart reader within 14 days, at any tram stop, and your pass will be updated to show you have paid to add tram and train. To buy online, you will need to link your concessionary pass to a Get Me There account you can find more details and a step-by-step guide at /add-a-card.
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If you pay early, you will be covered for one year from February 1 2020. Free shipping within the UK for orders over £15 Please note that by changing store you will lose your cart. TfGM explained the scheme starts on February 1, but residents will be able to pay early from January 5 2020. "This new charge seems to have been sneaked in just before the Christmas break, when news outlets are quiet, and will only add to the social isolation felt by older people, especially those with mobility issues, who are unable to get about a city where the public transport infrastructure is poor, especially in the city's badly served suburbs." The scheme starts on February 1, but seems to have been implemented without any consultation with either pass-users or age-friendly groups and organisations - not even Manchester council’s own Age-Friendly Board. He said: "TfGM haven’t given much notice. Ross Foss, who lives in Spinningfields, said TfGM's decision will further isolate elderly residents. The Trafford Centre Metrolink line will open months earlier than expected.Manchester Victoria staff walked out over 'unacceptable threats and abuse' last night - this is what the union and Northern Rail have to say about it.
There will be no change to free, off-peak bus travel and, if you only use buses, you can choose not to pay to add tram and train.īut one resident slammed the plans and described the announcement as a "pre-Christmas blow for pensioners". From next year, people with concessionary bus passes across Greater Manchester will have to pay £10 to continue getting free tram and train travel.įrom February 1 2020, people will need to pay the fee once a year to add other modes of transport to their pension-age or women's concessionary bus pass.Ĭurrently, the passes allow free off-peak travel for buses across England and for trams and trains across Greater Manchester.