AS the mother of a 14-year-old daughter, the steep rise in bus fares for young people strikes me as very unfair.

The new rates mean my daughter can use buses for only two days each week - she gets £4 per week pocket money - and will have no money left over for anything else.

Given that these rises will disproportionately disadvantage not only young people like my daughter, but families with children of any age, surely First York must re-think?

Melody Clarke,

Woodyard Farm,

Heslington, York.

Updated: 11:09 Tuesday, January 10, 2006