by Gerry McCartney and Wendy Macdonald At its annual conference in Edinburgh last month the SSP decided to campaign for the introduction of a Citizen’s Income (CI) and to do the necessary background research on the right value of the CI and the best way of administering it. What is a Citizen’s Income? A CI […]
by Colin Fox Whilst the political parties at Westminster were all agreeing to decimate public services the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) passed a resolution at its annual conference in Brighton to support the introduction of free public transport to combat global warming, reduce pollution and road traffic accidents and improve social inclusion. The […]
Summary Hasselt, in Limburg, Belgium, took a new approach to transport that could make even the most hardened petrolhead change their mind – they massively upgraded the public transport system and made it free, and now congestion is a thing of the past and the city is alive again. by Roz Paterson IN the city […]