Welcome to the digital home of Free Transit Ottawa! We are a group of transit-concerned, socially minded Ottawans who advocate for free transit in Ottawa.
Welcome to the digital home of Free Transit Ottawa! We are a group of transit-concerned, socially minded Ottawans who advocate for free transit in Ottawa.
In the News
Is transit a right?
Take a look at this great article from Michelle Perry in the Centre for Canadian Policy Alternatives January-February 2019 publication Check out the whole CCPA Monitor for this month FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT. It’s an idea dismissed as noble but unworkable in Canadian cities. Without fares, who would pay? Yet free transit is making inroads into …
Szwarc: LRT project ignores Ottawa’s low-income communities, which need public transit the most
Check out this great article from Julia Szwarc about the LRT and how it fails low income Ottawans! Click Here
Transit Justice in the Inner Suburbs
Presentation by Vincent Puhakka – member of TTC Riders, Jonah Gindin – RadTO, Steve Maher – Action Keele Campaign, and Deborah Littman – Field Organizer, Amalgamated Transit Union as moderated by Sadia Khan. Public transit is essential to accessing Toronto’s social and cultural life, including necessary things like getting groceries or going to work. Yet working …