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How has free bus travel for young people worked in Scotland?

Poppy Fairbairn, a 19-year-old medical student from Kirkcaldy, Fife, travels extensively around Scotland using the bus network to balance her commitments to studying, part-time work, and volunteering. Despite covering hundreds of miles each month, she does not incur any travel expenses. This is made possible through her National Entitlement Card (NEC), which grants free bus…