College Bus Pass Criteria

[tali1]

According to college leaflet to qualify for a free bus pass " you must live 2 miles or more from the campus where you are studying"
How are ABers reading this ? "Minimum 2 miles" ? or "More than 2 miles" ?

[Canary42]

Minimum 2 miles

[Prudie]

Minimum 2 miles

[woofgang]

yup you must live two miles away OR live more than two miles away

[woofgang]

BUT I'd be wanting to know how its measured.....

[Old_Geezer]

It says. 2 miles.
Or more.
i.e. ≥ 2 miles

[Gizmonster]

Same as rest of peeps on here.
2 miles or more means exactly that ..... 2 miles and above = minimum of 2 miles.

[Maydup]

Imagine college to be at the centre of a circle representing a 2 mile boundary. You have to live on the line of the circle or outside of it.

[fiction-factory]

Whilst it clearly says 2 miles or more (so 2 miles or more than 2 miles), really I don't think there is a difference in the two interpretations since the chances that it is exactly 2 miles (to the nearerst tenth of an inch or maybe mm) is almost nil. They should really say how it's measured-probably as the crow flies. In practice they probably don't check exactly -it's perhaps just to discourage those living say 1 mile away

[bhg481]

When my wife was at school she lived across the road and 50 yards nearer to the school thjan her friend; her friend got a free bus pass, my wife didn't. You have to draw the line somewhere. Incidentally, they both caught the bus rom the same stop.

[dannyk13]

The usual way to measure this is by getting a map and circling a two mile radius from the centre of the college.To qualify you must live outside that circle.Simples.

[fiction-factory]

If they are going to challenge things to the nearest metres ( to distinguish between 1.99 and 2.00 and 2.01 miles they would need to define which room in the house/which part of the property they are measuring from

[bhg481]

Not necessary ff, you just state that all of the house and garden must lie outside the circle.

[fiction-factory]

^ or on it?

[fiction-factory]

^some of it?

[Prudie]

ahhh but where also do they pinpoint the centre of the college if we're being that picky and precise :0)

[woofgang]

In practice, I expect they have established a list of addresses (maybe just postcodes) that qualify and those which do not.

[Buenchico]

Although this link is about school admission criteria, it's likely that the college authorities also use the Ordnance Survey's Address Base Premium service to calculate distances:
https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/schools-and-education/school-admissions/research-a-school/measuring-home-to-school-distance.aspx