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Scottish Greens

@ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot · 17 hours ago

Since we delivered free bus travel for under 22s, over 250 million free journeys have been taken.

It's opened up access to education, work and social opportunities that might otherwise have been out of reach.

Now it's time to deliver free bus travel and its benefits to everyone.

👉 https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/public-transport-is-a-public-good-and-should-be-for-free-lorna-slater-7947303

Edinburgh News. Public transport is a public good, and should be for free. Column by Lorna Slater.

Public transport is a public good, and should be for free - Lorna Slater

There is something quietly transformative about stepping onto a bus and not worrying about the cost of the fare. For hundreds of thousands of young people across Scotland, that is already a reality and it is changing lives in ways that go far beyond the journey itself.

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