SSP backs free public transport plan

On Sunday our executive committee backed a radical plan to make all Scottish public transport free. in a major attempt to tackle pollution, cut chronic traffic congestion and tackle traffic related ill health. The plan will be put to the party’s national council this weekend and is likely to form a flagship policy of our campaign for next year’s Scottish elections.

Free public transport would be the biggest pro- environment and anti pollution measure ever enacted by any national government.”“It would also boost real incomes and be a major anti poverty and pro social inclusion measure. It would also benefit Scotland's tourism industry.

SSP Policy coordinator Alan McCombes said:
“With just ten years to halt global warming we need radical solutions for the gravest crisis facing humanity.“By moving towards a free fare public transport system Scotland can lead the world as it did during the enlightenment.”

Read more about this radical new policy:

The case for free public transport

http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org/transport/transport01.html

Funding free public transport

http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org/transport/funding.html

Why not public transport?

http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org/transport/whynot.html

An idea whose time has come

http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org/transport/time.html