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From 1st April, time limits on disabled bus passes will be removed entirely, giving eligible holders free 24/7 travel. The £60m initiative is designed to lift peak-time barriers and ease cost-of-living pressures for millions.

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00:00Some rules you look at and just think, how can that be fair?
00:03One of them is the 9.30am restriction on disabled people's bus passes.
00:08Need to get to work, college, a hospital appointment, you better hope it's after 9.30.
00:12It makes no sense and I'm changing it.
00:15From April, disabled people will be able to use their bus passes for free at any time on any day.
00:21Scrapping the 9.30am restriction is something I did as Mayor of Greater Manchester,
00:26as well as bringing in a £2 cap on bus fares.
00:29Now I'm doing both nationally, so more people can make full use of Britain's most popular form of public transport
00:35and you can get where you need to be for less.
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