Free Public Transport For Bristol!

bristol | transport | press release Monday August 02, 2010 11:34 by Bristol CFFPT - Campaign For Free Public Transport bristolcffpt at hotmail dot co dot uk

Local transport campaign launch

Bristol Campaign For Free Public Transport will be holding its first meeting in South Bristol on Monday 23rd August at 7.00pm in Redcatch Community Centre, Redcatch Road, Knowle BS4 2EP. All welcome. Redcatch Road is just off the Wells Road; the best buses to get from the centre are 51 and 54 (alight at Broadwalk Shopping Centre).

See full story for website, contact details, and the campaign's aims and objectives.

Bristol Campaign For Free Public Transport will be holding its first meeting in South Bristol on Monday 23rd August at 7.00pm in Redcatch Community Centre, Redcatch Road, Knowle BS4 2EP. All welcome. Redcatch Road is just off the Wells Road; the best buses to get from the centre are 51 and 54 (alight at Broadwalk Shopping Centre).

A new website has been set up here:

http://bristolcffpt.wordpress.com/

- and the aim is to hold more meetings during the autumn/winter months and to organise lobbying and campaigning events in support of the CFFPT's aims.

The Campaign For Free Public Transport is a national campaign (small but growing!) whose aims include:

"...to secure an expanded, land and water based public transport system that is fully integrated, accessible, reliable, publicly owned and ultimately free for all at the point of use.

Objectives:

1. To defend the free bus pass for the over 60s.

2. To extend free public transport to children, young people, the unemployed and those in receipt of income support.

3. To secure public ownership of the public transport system, its expansion, full integration and rational planning.

4. To defend and extend the availability and reliability of public transport.

5. To conduct rigorous research on the funding and organisation of public transport.

6. To disseminate the Aims of the Campaign and build public support for them."

If you would like to get involved locally, please email: bristolcffpt@hotmail.co.uk

The national website can be found here:

http://www.freepublictransport.org.uk/