It's a party — and you're invited. Come together and meet with your fare-free-transit-loving community. Link to registration in bio! pic.twitter.com/XbnaXC86cc
— Free Transit Edmonton (@FreeTransitYEG) March 11, 2020
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Free Transit Edmonton Town Hall - March 24
Monday, March 9, 2020
Educators support #freepublictransit for kids
Free transit would benefit us all but especially the young people we work with in schools who struggle to attend due to transportation costs as well as other barriers and challenges.
— RAD Educators Network (@RADEducators) March 9, 2020
Check this out, friends! https://t.co/1bP7Roq9T9
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Fare-free would expand ridership and increase the buy-in of the public
Free Transit Edmonton (FTE) says free and effective transit is a matter of economic, climate and racial justice, and needs to be viewed as an essential service like public health care and education. The coalition of citizens challenged city councillors and the mayor to only use transit for one week to ensure they see “it from a deeper level than this kind of far-off policy view.” Councillors Aaron Paquette, Ben Henderson, Scott McKeen and Andrew Knack accepted.https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/more-connected-and-more-just-coalition-launches-campaign-for-free-transit-in-edmonton
...“The idea of fare-free transit is such an effective intervention, not only to serve the most vulnerable in our city but … it would expand ridership by quite a lot and increase the buy-in that the public has in the transportation system,” said Kruse.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Free Transit Edmonton launches transit week, a challenge to city leaders to ride public transit
A coalition of transit advocates launched a campaign Monday for free public transportation in Edmonton.
"We want to see public transit funded like our libraries, schools, hospitals and other public services — open and accepting of all, regardless of their ability to pay," said Laura Kruse an organizer with Free Transit Edmonton.
The group argues free transit would increase ridership and help alleviate poverty; it also wants to see an improved transit system to make it more appealing and accessible for people to use every day.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/free-transit-edmonton-coalition-1.5466536?
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Monday, February 10, 2020
#freepublictransit best idea since public healthcare and public education
Everybody's talking about it. It's the latest, best policy idea to come from the left since public healthcare and public education – it's free (and good!) public transit. We don't pay to go to the park, we don't pay to ride elevators, we don't have toll roads – so why do we pay for public transit? We already pay for most of the costs of public transit, "free" transit is just properly funding transit with public money, which we get by taxing the rich. When we eliminate fares for everyone we reduce carbon pollution, traffic and the cost of living not to mention all the positive economic effects and the reconciliation, racial justice and accessibility issues that are addressed with free transit.https://www.theprogressreport.ca/free_transit_for_all
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Hidden cost of cars, cleanup of oil wells
A new report suggests cleaning up all of the old and unproductive oil and gas wells in Alberta will cost between $40 billion and $70 billion.https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5089254?
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Edmonton - Oil industry wants public transit to be as unpleasant as possible
This morning I witnessed Edmonton transit cops hauling people off of trains and ticketing them for not having money.
— Conrad Nobert (@conradnobert) January 28, 2020
It was an exercise in humiliation. Indigenous people (it seemed) bore the brunt.
I felt a sense of outrage at how our system treats its most vulnerable people. pic.twitter.com/2lG0315yJp
Monday, January 27, 2020
Alberta, Canada - St. Albert mayor considering #freepublictransit
During a committee discussion around a free transit pilot for seniors, Heron asked her council colleagues if they would be willing to support making St. Albert’s bus system fare-free for local routes.https://www.stalberttoday.ca/local-news/examining-the-merits-of-free-rides-for-all-2020294?
“It would cost us, but maybe that's something we need to look at,” Heron told the Gazette during a year-end interview last week. “Every time you get one person on the bus, that's one car off the road.”
... If council approves the seniors transit pilot, seniors would join youth as the second demographic the city is targeting to test-drive free local transit. The youth pilot began last March, and during budget deliberations council decided to extend it until the end of 2020, which is estimated to cost $19,000.
Ridership among youth has more than tripled since the pilot began, increasing from 1,400 trips per month before the pilot to 5,980 trips per month.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
#freetransit is Edmonton's future
@CityofEdmonton @aaronpaquette @doniveson #FreeTransit needs to be part of the vision for the future, as well as enhancing the current service levels, so that private car use moves down to lower levels. The #YebBikeGrid moved a lot of people to try #ActiveTransport https://t.co/NsNaMbxOAz
— EllenJoanneCampbell (@ElleninSaigon) January 16, 2020
Harassing transit users at -35C
-35 is too damn cold to keep people from getting safely to their destination. 😠 If #yegTransit is ticketing for fares today that is literally putting people's lives at risk. #yegWinter #FreeTransit https://t.co/VzrwMcsbhI
— Jeff Samsonow (@jeffsamsonow) January 14, 2020
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