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  1. The ABCs of the Economic Crisis
    What Working People Need to Know
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Rich, powerful people created the economic crisis of 2008-09, while hundreds of millions of working people suffer the consequences -- lost homes, lost jobs, rising insecurity, and falling living standards. How could this happen?
  2. Advocates Argue Free Transit Benefits Us All
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Pablo analyzes the economic, environmental, and social benefits that a fareless public transportation system would provide Canadian cities.
  3. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  4. Canadian Urban Transit Association
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  5. The City and Radical Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  6. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  7. Corporations Undermined Public Transportation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Over the past eighteen months two of the world's largest automakers have been found responsible for deadly conspiracies. But, recent revelations can’t compete with the industry's previous scandals.
  8. Derailing Neoliberalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Haines-Doran examines the British transit workers' stike against rail privitization with its lack of concern for safety, unions, and workers' rights.
  9. Desire to Kill the Streetcar
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The author analyzes the conspiracy by large corporations to monopolize the American transit system and its fuel system.
  10. Ecosocialism and the fight for free public transit
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  11. Everyone on the Bus: Rider-Driver Alliances
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  12. Fare-Free Public Transit Could Be Headed to a City Near You
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    It's time to give people a free ride on public transit. And here's proof it works.
  13. Free Public Transit
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    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.
  14. Free Public Transit: And Why We Don't Pay to Ride Elevators
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2018
    In an age of increasing inequalities and ecological crisis, movements for free public transit are proposing a profound rethinking of urban transit as a fundamental human right and public good. Research shows that, if the bus were free, people would ride it as much as 50% more in the first year, dramatically reducing car use, traffic, and pollution, while redistributing wealth and increasing social inclusion for poor and working people. But free public transit alone is not enough; it must also be combined with much better service and reserve bus lanes to be effective. In its twenty chapters, this book explores the winning strategies and pitfalls of case studies ranging across fourteen countries: the United States, Canada, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, Poland, China, France, Belgium, Germany, and Australia.
  15. Free public transport: from social experiement to political alternative? - Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    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".
  16. Free transit
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  17. How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The author provides an overview of how bicycle use has monopolized the streets in Amsterdam to create an overall safer and environmentally city.
  18. "It's not just 2 pesos; It's the country:" Mexico City's #PosMeSalto Movement Protests Rising Transit Costs
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  19. Just Mobility: Postfossil Conversion and Free Public Transport
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  20. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
    Great Cities of North America Since 1600
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
  21. No Fares!
    Time for a free ride on public transit
    Resource Type: Article
    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?
  22. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
    Depression and Joy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    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.
  23. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
    Public Transit
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    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.
  24. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
    Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    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.
  25. Public Transit
    Introduction to the March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Public transit -- good affordable public transit -- is key to a liveable city.
  26. A Race Struggle, a Class Struggle, A Women's Struggle All at Once
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  27. The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  28. Regeneration
    Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City
    Resource Type: Book
  29. Rio fare protesters seize main station and let commuters travel free
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Watts discusses the economic and political impetus for the seizure of Rio de Janeiro's transit stations by the public in a protest against rising fare prices.
  30. Rio fare protesters seize main station and let commuters travel free
    Riot police, teargas and stun grenades fail to stop passe livre movement taking over Central do Brasil train and bus hub
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Thousands of commuters were shepherded through demolished ticket gates at the Central do Brasil station amid a violent confrontation over proposed fare rises that resulted in fires, arrests and disruption of transport networks. The station in downtown Rio echoed with police percussion grenades and the protesters' celebratory samba drumming as they seized control of the main bank of ticket machines.
    Close to a thousand people joined the passe livre (free pass) march, sparked by the announcement by the city mayor, Eduardo Paes, that bus fires will rise from 2.75 reais to 3 reais (£0.75/US$1.25) on Saturday. That may seem cheap compared with London or New York. But for a daily commuter on a minimum monthly wages of 724 reais a month it leaves transport costs at more than a sixth of income."
  31. 17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to Ride the Bus
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  32. 17 Reasons (or More) to Stop Charging People to Ride the Bus
    The case for Fare-Free Transit
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  33. Size matters: What Berlin’s rapid transit would look like in Toronto
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Berlin has about 600,000 more people than Toronto and encompasses about 250 more square kilometers, so it's reasonable to expect there to be more subway lines. But not this many: Berlin has 25 subway and urban rail lines; Toronto has three – four, if you include the Scarborough RT. That's 403 kilometres of track in Berlin, compared to Toronto's 68.3 km.
  34. Straphanger
    Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    A discussion of the major modern urban transport systems of the world.
  35. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  36. Toronto Talks Transit with Herman Rosenfeld
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2014
    Herman Rosenfeld speaks about transit issues in Toronto, and the campaign for good affordable public transit
  37. Toward Sustainable Communities
    Resources for Citizens and their Governments
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    The way our urban communities develop will largely determine our success or failure in overcoming environmental challenges and achieving sustainable development. Toward Sustainable Communities offer practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems.
  38. Towns for People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.
  39. Transit Activism and the Urban Question in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  40. The Unique Genius of Hong Kong's Public Transportation System
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Examining Hong Kong's "Value Capture" approach to public transportation.
  41. What America can learn from Europe's high-speed trains
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Adler examines the lagging state of high-speed rail technology in America while analyzing Germany's approach to transit and urban planning as a model for improvement.
  42. What would Rosa Parks do today?
    Resource Type: Article
    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.

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