A brand new initiative launching today, World Public Transport Day is described by its promoter, the International Association of Public Transport (UIPT), as “a global celebration of the critical role public transport plays in our everyday lives, the success of our towns and cities, our economic prosperity and sustainable development”.
You can read more about it here.
The Foundation for Integrated Transport (FIT) is marking the day with its own launch – of a Prospectus “celebrating 10 years of supporting radical change for sustainable transport” and telling its story, starting with its founder, the late Dr Simon Norton, who believed that “people without access to private motor vehicles have just as much right as anyone else to get around”.
FIT says the prospectus explores some the of hundreds of projects it has funded through the lens of six key impact areas:
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