I travel four hours on a bus per day - the bus fare cap will save me £500 a year
For Sarah Bodger the cost of travelling to work is "crippling". The wool shop owner says she travels about four hours from Bedworth in Warwickshire
For Sarah Bodger the cost of travelling to work is "crippling". The wool shop owner says she travels about four hours from Bedworth in Warwickshire to Leamington Spa and back, six days a week. The journey also involves catching two buses each way.
Sarah says she endures the long travel time as she loves running her shop. "It makes me happy," she says. But the cost of getting there comes to £58 per week, or more than £3,000 per year, she says.
That will change when a newly-announced cap on most single bus fares comes into force in England in January, which Sarah says will enable her to save £500 a year. After announcing the scheme, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said no-one should be "priced out" or "left behind" when it comes to affordable transport links.
"It's going to make a huge difference to me," Sarah tells the BBC. But what do others think of the new announcement?
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