Plans to cut Tyne and Wear Metro ticket prices for young people have been approved.
Cheaper fares will be introduced next month for passengers aged 21 and under who use a Pop smartcard to travel on the network. From May 7, Pop customers aged 16 to 21 will pay just £1 for a single Metro journey and a maximum of £2.20 for a full day’s travel.
Currently, a single ticket bought using the existing Pop 19-21 card can cost up to £2.30 and the daily cap is £3.40. The changes, which were signed off by members of the North East Joint Transport Committee (JTC) last week, will come only a matter of weeks after the cost of some adult paper tickets on the Metro were hiked by as much as 13.9%.
