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Scottish Socialist Party: Free public transport for all: travel doesn't have to cost the Earth
The Scottish Socialist Party’s campaign for free public transport is an ``audacious, eye-catching idea'' according to Douglas Fraser, political editor of The Herald newspaper.
In the Belgian city of Hasselt, which covers an area double the size of Dundee, congestion was eliminated in the late 1980s after the introduction of a totally free public transport system.
Free public transport would be the biggest single pro-environment policy enacted by any national government anywhere on the planet, dramatically slashing car use and CO2 emissions.
Free fares would represent a major shift of wealth in favour of the many thousands of people who currently pay sky-high fares to subsidise the transport companies.
Boosting public transport through free travel is a concrete means of tackling global warming.
For more information visit http://www.freepublictransport.org.
Click here for the SSP's pamphlet, Why you have to be Red to be Green.
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Public Transport
I think public transport is very important. And we should make efforts to make them more convenient and attractive to the public so that they will use public transport instead of their private vehicles.This will contribute greatly to the lessening of dangerous greenhouse gases, the less cars on the streets the less carbon emissions there is.
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