World Social Forum: call for free public transport

"There would be advantages to free public transport in huge cities.."

Economist & professor, Ladislau Dowbor from the Catholic University of Sao Paulo, addressed the 2010 World Social Forum in Brazil this week, with a presentation entitled 'Another kind of economics is possible.'

Among the raft of democratic reforms he proposed, he told the conference that "..there would be advantages ... to free public transport in huge cities like Sao Paulo, whose residents spend an average of two hours and 43 minutes a day in traffic, at terrible cost to everyone in terms of quality of life and pollution."

[The World Social Forum was set up 10 years ago as a counter to the World Economic Forum.]

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