{"id":28340,"date":"2022-01-05T15:47:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=28340"},"modified":"2022-01-05T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:48:07","slug":"young-persons-free-bus-travel-scheme-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/young-persons-free-bus-travel-scheme-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Persons\u2019 Free Bus Travel Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An update to free travel:<\/p>\n<p>From the 31<sup>st<\/sup> January, Transport Scotland are introducing <strong>free bus travel to everyone in Scotland aged from 5-21 years of age<\/strong>. To receive free travel, you must have a National Entitlement Card (NEC) or a Young Scot NEC which has to be scanned each time you board a bus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLEASE NOTE THAT AN EXISTING YOUNG SCOT CARD WILL NOT WORK AND YOU NEED TO APPLY FOR A NEW CARD.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who does not have a new style card will not be eligible for free travel and will have to pay the normal fare.<\/p>\n<p>To get your new card, please go to <a href=\"https:\/\/getyournec.scot\/nec\/\">getyournec.scot<\/a> and apply for your new card.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone aged under 16 years of age, the parent\/guardian must apply. #TransportScotland<\/p>\n<p>Please note: this is for public transport and not school transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update to free travel: From the 31st January, Transport Scotland are introducing free bus travel to everyone in Scotland aged from 5-21 years of age. To receive free travel, you must<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/young-persons-free-bus-travel-scheme-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28341,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28340\/revisions\/28341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}