***Next public meeting: Winning free public transport***
Fare Free London invites everyone to a public meeting to discuss campaigning for free public transport. The meeting will be from 11am-4pm on Sunday 29th September 2024, at the Waterloo Action Centre, Baylis Road, London SE1.
It will feature speakers from successful international campaigns for free public transport, and opportunities to strategise with people in your local area / trade union.
Register here. Please RSVP if you can make it so we can keep track of numbers.
Online-only attendees are welcome too, if you cannot attend in person. Details for this will be sent out via email. Other information:
- Lunch and tea and coffee will be provided.
- You do not have to be involved in a campaign already to attend.
- Please get in touch with us at info@farefreelondon.org if you have any questions.
Who We Are
We are a campaign for free public transport in London. Our organisation brings together community groups, trade unions, environmentalists and others who see free public transport as central to our vision of the London in which we want to live.
What We Stand For
Open the City To All
It is provided as a public service, just like health, education and public parks, and is supported by public investment. It is central to a vision of London as a city where people, their health and the lives they live, come first.
Socially Just
Free public transport is socially just, supporting the lowest-income families that are least likely to have a car. It is better transport, underpinned by substantial investment, with a secure, properly-rewarded workforce. It is one of the drastic, demonstrative actions needed to tackle climate change globally and air pollution locally.
Model exists in 100+ cities globally
Public transport is already free in many smaller cities, including Luxemburg, Tallinn (Estonia), Montpellier and Dunkerque (France) and Albuquerque and Kansas City (USA). London can be the first big global city to follow their example.
We call on the Mayor and the Greater London Authority (GLA) to provide free public transport in London. The first step is to research ways to implement it. We call on national government to support free public transport in London, and around the country. The local government finance rules need to be changed, so that local authorities can raise money for it.
