Sunday, February 9, 2020

Dunkirk, France, ridership up, service expanded, with #freepublictransport

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Friday, February 7, 2020

Conseiller de Paris supports #freepublictransport

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Thursday, February 6, 2020

Ghent, Belgium, #freepublictransport cheaper than road-building

Free mass transit also seems to be good for the local economy, despite fears to the contrary. Filip Watteeuw, deputy mayor of Ghent, said that since the provision of free public transport, there “has been a 17% increase in restaurant and bar startups, and the number of empty shops has been arrested”. Ghent’s plan cost just €4m (£3.4m) to implement. By comparison it costs an estimated £20m-£30m to build just one mile of motorway. The city also has significantly cleaner air – nitrogen oxide levels have dropped by 20% since 2017 – and there is an unexpected benefit of noise reduction: “Instead of car noise,” says Filip Watteeuw, deputy mayor, “people can now hear each other talking and children laughing.”
https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/there-is-such-a-thing-as-a-free-ride-rapid-innovations-in-urban-transport/ 
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Scottish Socialist Party and People Before Profit canvassing together

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Tuesday, February 4, 2020

UK levels of PM 2.5 exceed safe levels

Rush-hour traffic in Manchester

The study by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) found that about 15 million people in the UK live in areas where average levels of PM2.5 – a tiny toxic particle that predominantly comes from vehicle emissions, wood burning and construction – exceeds guidelines set by the World Health Foundation.
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Monday, February 3, 2020

Parties in Ireland call out Ireland Green Party for not supporting #freepublictransport

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EU Health and Environmental Alliance calls for #freepublictransport

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