Public event: Winning free public transport – please register!

Posted: September 6, 2024

11am-4pm, Sunday 29 September 2024

at the Waterloo Action Centre, Baylis Road, London SE1 7AA. All welcome.

Speakers include:

Lisa Hopkinson, Transport for Quality of Life

Daniel Randall, RMT London Transport Region activist (personal capacity)

Daniel Santini, transport researcher at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (on zoom)

Jerome Serodio, National Coordination of Collectives for Free Public Transport, France

Ellie Harrison, Get Glasgow Moving

Drew Pearce, researcher of sustainable mobility and transport decarbonisation

… and activists from Fare Free London, community and environmentalist groups and trade unions

Plenty of time for discussion, and opportunities to strategise with people in your local area / trade union.

This is a hybrid event.

Have you registered yet? If not, please register now via this link (to attend in person or on line)

□ Lunch, and tea and coffee, provided. □ You do not have to be involved in a campaign already to attend □ We welcome people from outside London as well as Londoners! □ Get in touch at info@nullfarefreelondon.org if you have any questions.

Sign and circulate our petition to the mayor

We have started a petition to Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, calling on him to consider the potential for free public transport in the city. Specifically, it asks him to set up a commission to “outline opportunities that free public transport would provide”, to “investigate the barriers preventing free public transport” and to “design a pilot to test giving free public transport to people in London”. Please sign the petition here, and circulate it far and wide.

We plan to deliver the petition to City Hall on Thursday 10 October, before the meeting of the Greater London Assembly that day.

Ask your trade union, or community group, to support our campaign

The call for free public transport is supported by the trade union organisation that represents the drivers and other staff on the London underground (the RMT London Transport regional council), along with two of the local branches for Transport for London staff.

Now Fare Free London, together with our friends in the Greener Jobs Alliance, are campaigning to win support from more trade union organisations – whether they represent transport workers, or others.

If you are in a trade union, please propose a motion to your branch, calling for free public transport. You can take some ideas from the RMT branch motion (attached), or from the Aims page of our web site.

If you want someone from our organising group to come to speak at a meeting, let us know.

You can ask your trade union branch to add its name to our supporters page, and send us a video or written message. There’s a form attached for that, too. Branches can also send donations to Fare Free London.

We welcome community groups, environmentalists and others to support us too.

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