Hoax!

On Merseyside, one Spring night in 1976, a group of people entered bus depots and stuck official-looking notices inside the buses. The notices read: "EXPERIMENTAL FREE TRAVEL: Due to the sharp rise in administration and collection costs the Executive are introducing free bus travel for an experimental period of 14 days. No fares will be collected on any MPTE services from Monday, 3rd May to Sunday, 16th May, 1976.

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