Resources
This page contains some useful presentations and information about fare free public transport, from London and across the world.
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.
This leaflet explains some better methods of paying for public transport, from around the world, either without fares or with reduced fares.
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.
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 video (of the speakers only, not the audience) will also be shared soon. The agenda for the day is linked here: Agenda
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
From our friends at Union pour la Gratuité et le Développement des Transports publics (France)
Read the four-page information sheet here
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)