Sunday, June 22, 2008

Free public transport

Free Public transport campaign from the Scottish Socialist Party



  • Its time has come. I will dig around one day for figures to support that it will be cheaper for the community to have free public transport than not to due to the expense of congestion, pollution, road deaths, road works, property buy-outs for new roads etc..

3 comments:

fpteditors said...

Transport fees [fares] exist solely for the purpose of discouraging use. Many studies have shown that it is cheaper to run urban transport free.
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http://frepubtra.blogspot.com/2008/04/kheel-plan-read-it.html
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National Enquirer said...

Thanks ftpeditors.

Also see Community Action for Sustainable Transport (for those in the South East Queensland (Australia) region).

And to add your link as a link:
http://frepubtra.blogspot.com/2008/04/kheel-plan-read-it.html

fpteditors said...

Thanks, national enquirer.
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