RYEDALE residents are being urged to protest about travel concessions which a town councillor claims are useless.
Pickering town councillor Natalie Warriner says a cut-price travel scheme for elderly people in the district, will be of no benefit to the majority of people who qualify.
The bus concession is due to replace travel tokens, which can at present be used to buy parking permits for motorists.
Coun Warriner said: "There are many elderly people in Ryedale who use their cars because there is no public transport in some rural areas.
"I am therefore urging people to send their concessions straight back to the council. If few people take part in the scheme there is a chance the tokens will be retained.
"I just want people to take the envelopes, write 'return to sender' on them and post them back to the council. This is the only way we can get it through to the council that these travel tokens are unwanted.
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