Our solution to pollution - Our suggestion for congestion:
"An expanded public transport system that is fully integrated, publicly owned and free at the point of use."
We believe Public transport is an essential public service, which should be publicly owned and run.
We want to see its improvement and expansion for the benefit of its users, to help remove traffic from our roads, to reduce pollution and CO2 emissions, and to protect pedestrians, cyclists and other road users.
Such a policy would also create thousands of new jobs building all the buses, trams and trains we will need, as well as for bus, tram and train drivers, guards and maintenance staff at a time of growing unemployment.
We believe public transport should be free at the point of use because that's the only way we're going to get people out of their cars - a recent survey having shown that as many as 72% of the those interviewed said they would only give up their cars if they had access to free public transport.
As well as generating many other benefits, free public transport would also put the money ordinary people currently spend on public transport back into their pockets.
We believe what we are calling for should be financed out of general taxation, ideally with the rich paying the most, and the poorest pay nothing at all.
Given the growing climate crisis and that transport is responsible for up to a third of CO2 emissions, what we are advocating is also a more environmentally sound and practical solution to the whole issue of public transport and its relationship with climate change than the current Government and main opposition parties' policies are.
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(read less)Our solution to pollution - Our suggestion for congestion:
"An expanded public transport system that is fully integrated, publicly owned and free at the point of use."
We believe Public transport is an essential public service, which should be publicly owned and run.
We want to see its improvement and expansion for the benefit of its users, to help remove traffic from our roads, to reduce pollution and CO2 emissions, and to protect pedestrians, cyclists and other road users.
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