The following listing of organizations around the world that are "fighting for free public transport" has been compiled by the Swedish activist group Free Public Transport, whose aim is to provide a global forum for the free public transport movement. Their website among other things provides information about local organizations around the world fighting for free public transport, as well as cities which have already implemented it. For their latest listing, click to http://freepublictransports.com/organization/.
Australia
Canada
- Supprimons les tarifs de transport à Montréal
- Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly
- Free and Accessible Transit Campaign
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Editor's note :
At a time in which we need to be rethinking from the very base our transportation arrangements, including testing all of our received beliefs on the topic, it would be pure folly not to make an effort to understand what these mainly young people and groups are trying to tell us. There are many layers and nuances to what they have to propose , and policymakers should be prepared to listen to and learn from them. Because at the end of the day the solution is going to be very different from present practices so we might as well start to become comfortable with, for many, uncomfortable thoughts
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