Dear Alex and Naomi
The couple of articles I have read in my daughter's transport magazines, as Jake Thrush said last Thursday, agree that Fare-Free Public Transport does not entice the thoughtless car commuters who insist on driving into work when they do not need their vehicles for their job, to leave the car at home.
I drive a car but no longer in town or city centres, preferring my bike or bus/train/tram. I even have my sister-in-law's Brompton or my own bike in the car to cycle the last part of the journey. Indeed, last Thursday for the Net Zero Annual Event, I cycled the nine miles from home in Halesowen to 'The Exchange'. As a full-time social worker in Brum, I gave up the car for 90% of work days for the last twenty years of my career.
With those credentials (and my daughter is a great cyclist to the railway station on her way to her transport planner job) I can argue for FFPT together with stiff and strengthening penalties for errant car commuters.
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