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  1. Advocates Argue Free Transit Benefits Us All
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Pablo analyzes the economic, environmental, and social benefits that a fareless public transportation system would provide Canadian cities.
  2. Bus Driver
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    Follows Karnel Basi, a public transit driver in South Vancouver, along his regular route through the downtown east side to the heart of the city and back again. Along the way he picks up a variety of passengers, struggles to stay on schedule and keep his bus safe.
  3. The Canadian City
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Based on the belief that a healthy city life is possible, this volume collects articles, stories and histories about the city and its people, covering aspects such as human and social relations, art and architecture, urban planning, land development, and the greening of the urban environment.
  4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  5. Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    In the near future, it is likely that cities will come under intense pressure to sacrifice public transportation in favor of new, private, car-dependent alternatives, even at a time when city planners are suggesting reducing or even eliminating car use in cities.The article looks into the benefits of the new technologies, as well as benefits of public transit.
  6. The City and Radical Social Change 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
  7. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  8. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
  9. Delusions of the Tech Bro Intelligentsia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    With employees of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system on strike, the Silicon Valley tech elite has reminded us all that despite their enlightened Bay Area lifestyles, they are still, at root, a bunch of rich dudes. Corey Robin ably documents the reactionary politics and moral degeneracy of people who see themselves as heroic entrepreneurs and the people who get them to work as greedy parasites.
  10. Derailing Neoliberalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Haines-Doran examines the British transit workers' stike against rail privitization with its lack of concern for safety, unions, and workers' rights.
  11. Desire to Kill the Streetcar
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The author analyzes the conspiracy by large corporations to monopolize the American transit system and its fuel system.
  12. Ecosocialism and the fight for free public transit 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Mass transportation is intimately tied not only to the physical form of cities, but to the deeper social structures of imperial capitalism. A campaign for free public transit can be an important part of a broader fight to restructure society along ecosocialist lines.
  13. Everyone on the Bus: Rider-Driver Alliances
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Kann sheds light on the increasingly desperate state of transit in Detroit as number and frequency of buses and entire routes are experiencing increasing cuts and riders join in a union with drivers to protest these affairs.
  14. Fare-Free Public Transit Could Be Headed to a City Near You
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    It's time to give people a free ride on public transit. And here's proof it works.
  15. Free and Accessible Transit Now
    Toward a Red-Green Vision for Toronto
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The free transit model makes public transit a right of all people, which would dramatically increase its use. While serving he vast majority of Torontonians and strengthening the public sector's role in meeting their needs, it would also address the special mobility requirements of the last mobile and most public-transit-dependent.
  16. Free Public Transit
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2015
    This video focuses on accessibility when it comes to public transit in Tallinn, Estonia and how transit issues intersect with social justice issues.
  17. Free public transport: from social experiement to political alternative? - Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A book review of M. Giovannangeli and J. L. Sagot-Duvauroux's "Voyageurs sans ticket. Liberté, égalité, gratuité : une expérience sociale à Aubagne".
  18. Free transit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A pamphlet which gathers together a number of essays on the struggle for public transit. It emerges especially out of the urban context of Toronto. But the essays speak also to the wider crisis of public transit in North America, and the importance of this demand to an eco-socialist vision of feasible futures.
  19. Green Guide to Germany
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    The authors advocate a new form of Tourism in Germany called Sanfter Tourismus which enourages the tourist to respect the environment and use alternative means of transportation which is environmentally sound.
  20. In Our Backyard
    A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide...
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    In Our Backyard focuses on environmental problems that apply directly to Greater Vancouver. With detials on local garbage and recylcing facilities, water and energy consumption, sewage disposal, air quality, and more, it is designed to help ordinary people deal with the onslaught of information and value changes that will continue to surround the environmental movement.
  21. "It's not just 2 pesos; It's the country:" Mexico City's #PosMeSalto Movement Protests Rising Transit Costs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The author surveys the 2 peso transit fare hike in Mexico within the context of the country's suffering ecomomy and low living wage to showcase why the decision is a mistake.
  22. Just Mobility: Postfossil Conversion and Free Public Transport
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    In the face of a growing world population and metropolitan areas growing to accomodate them, Brie and Candeias analyze electric cars and free transit as alternatives to urban mobility.
  23. Keep the TTC public
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    Privatization of public transit around the world has been a disaster for taxpayers and riders. In this video, we learn of some of these disasters and why Toronto should avoid TTC public-private partnerships. Narrated by Canadian actor Eric Peterson.
  24. Let's Knock Off the Fare Box
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Olsen supports the argument in favour of fare-free transit by investigating the costs surrounding fare collection that are left largely unexamined by officials and unannounced to the public in various North American cities.
  25. The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    The Bus Riders Union began as an outgrowth of the Labor/Community Strategy Center's "Equity in Transportation Project," a policy analysis group which to study the transportation problems of the urban poor. What they discovered was an increasingly polarized allocation of public resources based on race.
  26. The New Struggle for Public Transit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In an argument against privatization of Toronto's transit system, Rosenfeld draws on Booth's examination of the ongoing situation in London since the city had turned over responsibility of planning, operating, and budgeting transit to private companies and have since suffered from economic decline and inefficiency.
  27. New York Transit Between Old and New Directions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    IN ATC 74 ("Transit Workers Try a New Direction"), Marian Swerdlow described the fight taking place in Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) between the entrenched Willie James bureaucracy and the reformers in New Directions. Local 100 represents New York City's bus and subway workers. Written earlier this year, Swerdlow's article concluded as the stage was being set for the rerun election ordered when the International TWU was forced to admit that the narrow victory by the...
  28. Next Door to BC, the Bus Is Free
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Olsen writes about his experience with fare-free transit on Whidbey Island, debunking myths about the inefficiency, impracticality, and unsustainability of such a system.
  29. No Fare Is Fair: A Campaign for Free Public Transit in Toronto
    Why Do We Need Free Transit?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Public transit should be a right for everyone in Toronto. Using subways, buses, and streetcars shouldn't require paying fares, or user fees, that penalize riders with lower incomes.
  30. No Fares!
    Time for a free ride on public transit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    This series of articles in The Tyee takes a hard look at fare hikes and spending priorities by B.C.'s transit planners, as well as rising greenhouse emissions and pollution by the private automobile, and asks: Why are we creating barriers for people who might take public transit?
  31. No Hassle Transit? Try Hasselt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    A consideration of Belgium's transit infrastructure and fare-free system implementation as a model for BC to draw upon.
  32. NYC Transit Workers' Fare Strike 2012: Can Occupy Open Horizons for a Frustrated Labor Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Transit workers belonging to New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100 exhibit a familiar sight in the 21st century U.S. labor movement: broke, angry, slandered, disillusioned, directionless and top heavy.
  33. Off the Map: Disabilities and Just Mobility
    People with disabilities who rely on local public transit are getting squeezed between gentrification and austerity.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    An examination of the tensions between investment driven public transit improvements and displacement of less affluent residents; with particular reference to people with mobility issues or disabilities.
  34. Off the Rails - The Rise and Fall of the Streetcar
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A history of the streetcar in the United States, beginning with the need for a modern, cost-efficient form of public transit, to its surging popularity, and ending with the General Motors conspiracy that sought to destroy rail-based public transit.
  35. Organizing Around Transit: At the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    For the older big cities in North America, public transit is critical to their daily functioning. Organizing among workers and riders on public transit has a strategic importance.
  36. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
    Depression and Joy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
  37. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
    Public Transit
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
  38. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
    Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
  39. Paying for 'Free' Transit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Olsen discusses the politics surrounding funding options for transit systems outside of passenger fare to support a fare-free system and proposes shifting spending costs towards avenues that favour riders and transit needs rather than corporate needs, in order to improve service.
  40. Public transit is a women's issue
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Drimonis highlights the problem of sexual harrassment of female passengers and the failure of transit officials to address this problem.
  41. Public Transit Struggles in London and Toronto: P3s, Transit Workers and Alternatives
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2015
    Using the fight against transit privatization practices in London, England, Rosenfeld presents a model for reform in Toronto that prioritizes rider concerns such as reduced fares and increased accessibility.
  42. A Race Struggle, a Class Struggle, A Women's Struggle All at Once
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    In Los Angeles, the Labor/Community Strategy Center is carrying out a difficult Left experiment in the age of the omnipresent Right. The center is an explicitly anti-racist, anti-corporate, and anti-imperialist think-tank focusing on 'theory-driven practice'—the generation of mass campaigns of the working class and oppressed nationalities, in particular the black and Latino workers and communities. These campaigns are historically relevant on their own terms, but also have real relevance to any transition to an uncharted socialist future.
  43. The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Stromberg dissects socials attitude regarding public transit in the United States, where infrastructure in most cities was designed with automobile dependency in mind, thereby causing transit to be been viewed and designed, as a form of social welfare rather than a public utility.
  44. San Francisco Transit Fight
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
  45. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
    Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
  46. 17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to Ride the Bus
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Olsen outlines a proposal for how to implement a fare-free transit system using already existing examples from around the world that are supported by their level of success and positive effects on their societies, environment, and customer satisfaction.
  47. 17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to Ride the Bus
    The case for Fare-Free Transit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The time has come to stop making people pay to take public transit. Why do we have any barriers to using buses, trolleys, SkyTrain? The threat of global warming is no longer in doubt. The hue and cry of the traffic jammed driver grows louder every commute.
  48. Straphanger
    Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A discussion of the major modern urban transport systems of the world.
  49. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
  50. Toronto Talks Transit with Herman Rosenfeld
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2014
    Herman Rosenfeld speaks about transit issues in Toronto, and the campaign for good affordable public transit
  51. Towns for People
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.
  52. Transit Activism and the Urban Question in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The demand for free transit has been an important starting point of recent mobilizations in Brazil, notably those that shook the whole country in the summer of 2013. This interview with local activists and researchers João Tonucci and André Veloso zeroes in on transit organizing in Belo Horizonte, the third largest metropolitan area in Brazil.
  53. Transit Irony: The More You Rely on It, the More They Cut
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Winslow discusses the transit situation in Pittsburgh, where officials are implementing a series of budget cuts and fare hikes without improving service to the large number of riders who depend on the service.
  54. Transit Irony: The More You Rely on It, the More They Cut
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Transit ridership is at its highest since 1956, with 10.7 billion trips in 2013, according to the American Public Transportation Association. This is despite widespread cuts to bus and rail service -- and rising fares. The 2008 economic crisis started the pinch, but federal and local officials have continued to squeeze.
  55. Transport Policy and the Environment
    Six Case Studies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  56. Ventra Capitalists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Zimmer discusses the problems arising with the recent implementation of the Ventra fare collection system for Chicago transit, a change that has been costly and inefficient for riders but profitable for corporations involved.
  57. What would Rosa Parks do today?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    If Rosa Parks was taking action against transit racism today, she likely wouldn’t talk about segregated seating. Instead, she would be calling attention to disappearing service and unaffordable fares in communities that need transit the most.
  58. Why Pay To Ride?
    The Modern Metropolis
    Resource Type: Article
    There is nothing revolutionary about providing "free" transportation. Why do we collect fares for some kinds of transporation but not others?
  59. Workers Solidarity Issue 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2007
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