But Kernow gets the money from the passes not TfC or the council, so they have no reason to let you on their buses as it's a separate contract, as their view would be is that it's a pass to get you to college so that where you should be2 weeks after I send a email to go ahead cornwall help line I finally got a response,
I asked about if they would accept truro/penwith college bus passes as when there routes start they would take over essential route for students to college which was run by first kernow. (less important now that college is closed but still important for when they reopen) but they said they will not accept college bus passes, which would have meant that student would have been unable to travel to college which is sorely not correct and the Cornwall council have definitely not thought this through correctly
I know the rules around college passes can be frustrating, back when I was at college you couldn't catch service buses before 9 so if you missed the college bus for some reason, you would be screwed unless the driver let you on