An Edinburgh youth worker has called on Lothian Bus drivers to be "more considerate" after he had to step in to pay for a high school pupil’s bus fare when the lad's Young Scot card bounced.
Tristyn Trusler, 24, a volunteer youth worker in the capital, says he hopes that certain bus drivers would "assess each situation" as "opposed to robotically following policy" after the driver of a bus at Balerno High School was about to refuse entry to a young pupil.
The incident is understood to have taken place at around 1.10pm on Tuesday May 16 on a 44 service travelling towards Wallyford. A group of S1 or S2 pupils were said to have got on heading to lunch only for two of their Young Scot cards to be declined by the bus scanner.
