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Our Pass youth travel scheme launches in Greater Manchester

In September 2019 Greater Manchester launched Our Pass, a 16–18 concessionary travel scheme under Mayor Burnham. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In September 2019 Greater Manchester launched Our Pass, a 16–18 concessionary travel scheme under Mayor Burnham.

Context

TfGM administers. Colleges share. He owned the scheme. He did not sit as every bus driver.

Bee Network franchising is a neighbouring later system-level instrument.

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is head of His Majesty’s Government. Parliament writes statutes; the King appoints; combined authorities and departments implement; courts can stay a scheme. A prime minister can take an oath, announce everyday consumer fixes, and sit in Cabinet. He does not write a Greater Manchester by-law by himself after leaving the mayoralty, a UN resolution, or a Supreme Court judgment.

Why it matters

The path is education access and household purchasing power: a completed 16–18 travel pass is a dated reduction of the private cost of reaching college.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Andy Burnham

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.55 · verified

    He launched the scheme as mayor. TfGM administers. Operators carry passengers.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.GMCA — Ground-breaking support scheme for young people opens for applications (Our Pass)Greater Manchester Combined Authority · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Free bus travel for Greater Manchester teenagers launchedBBC News · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Transport for Greater Manchester carries the official instrument or communique. BBC records the same dated act independently.

Established: a September 2019 launch of Our Pass for 16–18 travel in Greater Manchester.

Not established: a unique later attainment coefficient from that Sunday, or that every 16-year-old enrolled.

TfGM administers. Operators carry passengers.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Our Pass youth travel scheme launches in Greater Manchester, not a later speech about Our Pass youth travel scheme launches in Greater Manchester.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He launched the scheme as mayor. TfGM administers. Operators carry passengers. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. Parliament, the King, TfGM, GMCA boroughs, the NHS, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A by-election is not a general election. A bus franchise is not a unique CPI coefficient. A GOV.UK profile is not a delivered poverty path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAndy Burnham
  2. contributed toFactOur Pass youth travel scheme launches in Greater Manchester
  3. strengthensDrivers (2)Digital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Our Pass youth travel scheme launches in Greater Manchester. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/uk-gm-our-pass-2019

https://factrail.ai/facts/uk-gm-our-pass-2019

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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