Resources
This page contains some useful presentations and information about fare free public transport, from London and across the world.
New page has information about free fares in other places – scroll down to ‘information from around the world’
The page also has leaflets for use in different contexts, e.g. on stalls or at meetings etc.
Resources from Fare Free London
Fare-Free London campaigns for free public transport in London. Our organisation, launched at a meeting on 10 February 2024, brings together community groups, trade unions, environmentalists and others who see free public transport as central to our vision of the city in which we want to live. Part 1 of this Briefing is a summary of our campaign’s aims, approved at that meeting. Parts 2 and 3 explain the need for free public transport, and the remaining parts cover how it could be achieved.
How to pay for it?
How to pay for it? Strategy and thinking
This article explains the organising group’s thinking around strategies of paying for public transport, and our current positions.
Leaflets
This leaflet describes some better methods of paying for public transport, from around the world, either without fares or with reduced fares.
Leaflet in English Leaflet in Spanish Leaflet in Kurdish Leaflet in Greek
This is a general leaflet for free fares
Article by Daniel Randall – how free fares could benefit transport workers
Silvertown Tunnel
Silvertown Tunnel opening day leaflet
This leaflet was made for the opening of the Silvertown Tunnel, where three free bus routes were provided to ‘offset’ the increased car journeys the tunnel creates. We argue all public transport can and should be free.
Information from around the world
Spreadsheet with links to information about places around the world that have free public transport.
From our event on 29th September 2024:
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 these are linked below. The videos (of the speakers only, not the audience) are also available. Agenda for the day
Session 1: The case for free public transport: social justice and climate aims, and why transport workers support it. Watch the recording here
Simon Pirani, Fare Free London
Lisa Hopkinson, Transport for Quality of Life
Session 2: What the academic research says: abolishing fares helps hit climate targets and transport policy aims. Watch the recording here
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. Watch the recording here
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
Ellie Harrison, Get Glasgow Moving, Scotland (by video link)
Mallige, Karnataka Janashakthi, India (by video link)
Resources from elsewhere in the movement
The IPPR’s report ‘The challenge of transport costs on low income households’
From our friends at Union pour la Gratuité et le Développement des Transports publics (France)
Read the four-page information sheet
From our friends at Transport for Quality of Life
Transport for Quality of Life website
Briefing: A Radical Transport Response to the Climate Emergency. (2019)
