Long-forgotten ideas: Free buses

18 March 2016
 

There can’t be many transport policy ideas so comprehensively unlikely to command serious interest now as the suggestion that buses – or, indeed, public transport as a whole – should be free. But, for a while, from the 1960s and into the 1980s, it was taken seriously, and its rise and fall provided lessons, most of which have been forgotten.  

There were three quite different arguments, very uneasy bedfellows, which came together. First, there was the long-standing,...

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