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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