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tali1 | 20:51 Mon 19th Nov 2018 | How it Works
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According to college leaflet to qualify for a free bus pass " you must live 2 miles or more from the campus where you are studying"
How are ABers reading this ? "Minimum 2 miles" ? or "More than 2 miles" ?
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Minimum 2 miles
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yup you must live two miles away OR live more than two miles away
BUT I'd be wanting to know how its measured.....
It says. 2 miles.
Or more.
i.e. ≥ 2 miles
Same as rest of peeps on here.
2 miles or more means exactly that ..... 2 miles and above = minimum of 2 miles.
Imagine college to be at the centre of a circle representing a 2 mile boundary. You have to live on the line of the circle or outside of it.
Whilst it clearly says 2 miles or more (so 2 miles or more than 2 miles), really I don't think there is a difference in the two interpretations since the chances that it is exactly 2 miles (to the nearerst tenth of an inch or maybe mm) is almost nil. They should really say how it's measured-probably as the crow flies. In practice they probably don't check exactly -it's perhaps just to discourage those living say 1 mile away
When my wife was at school she lived across the road and 50 yards nearer to the school thjan her friend; her friend got a free bus pass, my wife didn't. You have to draw the line somewhere. Incidentally, they both caught the bus rom the same stop.
The usual way to measure this is by getting a map and circling a two mile radius from the centre of the college.To qualify you must live outside that circle.Simples.
If they are going to challenge things to the nearest metres ( to distinguish between 1.99 and 2.00 and 2.01 miles they would need to define which room in the house/which part of the property they are measuring from
Not necessary ff, you just state that all of the house and garden must lie outside the circle.
^ or on it?
^some of it?
ahhh but where also do they pinpoint the centre of the college if we're being that picky and precise :0)
In practice, I expect they have established a list of addresses (maybe just postcodes) that qualify and those which do not.
Although this link is about school admission criteria, it's likely that the college authorities also use the Ordnance Survey's Address Base Premium service to calculate distances:
https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/schools-and-education/school-admissions/research-a-school/measuring-home-to-school-distance.aspx

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