I travel four hours on a bus per day - the bus fare cap will save me £500 a year - Published For Sarah Bodger the cost of travelling to work is "crippling". The wool shop owner says she travels about four hours from Bedworth in Warwickshire to Leamington Spa and back, six days a week. The journey also involves catching two buses each way.

Sarah says she endures the long travel time as she loves running her shop. "It makes me happy," she says. But the cost of getting there comes to £58 per week, or more than £3,000 per year, she says.

That will change when a newly-announced cap on most single bus fares comes into force in England in January, which Sarah says will enable her to save £500 a year. After announcing the scheme, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said no-one should be "priced out" or "left behind" when it comes to affordable transport links. "It's going to make a huge difference to me," Sarah tells the BBC.

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The 24-year-old, who lives on the city's outskirts, said capping bus fares would mean he'd be more likely to travel into the city centre on weekends. "It's not going to completely revolutionise life for anyone, but it might be the difference between me deciding against going to do something in town on a whim that might be a bit smaller, because again it adds up if you're doing that a few times a week, it can add up and it can make a difference," he said. However Holly Haines, who lives in a rural part of Hereford near the England-Wales border, said the cap would have no impact on her bus travel as the service she uses is provided by a Welsh company.

She said that despite the current £3 bus cap in England, a single on her bus costs at least £4.20, despite the journey being "entirely in England". "Whilst I would love for other people to benefit from the £2 capped fare... I find it hard that I will not be able to benefit from it," she said.

Diane Wordsworth, who also lives in a more rural part of England, thinks that while the £2 cap is a good idea, bus services need to be improved first. "We're in a semi-rural part of Doncaster," she said, "but even when we've lived in more built-up areas, the buses in town... stop at 9pm, so you can't get back from anywhere and, therefore, have to take a car and designate a driver, or pay for a taxi." "We need a proper bus service first, that isn't run by several different companies.

"Then we might be able to take advantage of capped fares and use public transport more." Seb Pelisse, meanwhile, said while the bus fare cap would be positive news for those who don't drive, it would make little difference to his own finances. The 33 year old, who lives in Surrey, told BBC Your Voice that he uses his car to get around where he lives, and commutes on the train to London for work.