The public meeting “Winning free public transport” that Fare Free London held on Sunday 29th September 2024 was successful, with many interesting conversations had.
The speakers have given their permissions for their presentations to be shared, and are contained in this article. We will post them on our ‘Resources’ page soon. The video (of the speakers only, not the audience) will also be shared soon.
Agenda for the day
Session 1: The case for free public transport: social justice and climate aims, and why transport workers support it.
Simon Pirani, Fare Free London
Lisa Hopkinson, Transport for Quality of Life
Daniel Randall, Rail Maritime and Transport union, London Transport region activist (in a personal capacity)
Session 2: What the academic research says: abolishing fares helps hit climate targets and transport policy aims
Drew Pearce, researcher of sustainable mobility and transport decarbonisation
Pearl Ahrens, Fare Free London
Session 3: International experience: the effects of free public transport, and how people have campaigned for it
Daniel Santini, transport researcher at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (by video link)
Jerome Serodio, National Coordination of Collectives for Free Public Transport, France (his four-page print-out here)
Ellie Harrison, Get Glasgow Moving, Scotland (by video link)
Mallige, Karnataka Janashakthi, India (by video link)
7th October 2024.
