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"Public transport has a vital role to play in decarbonising our economy and safeguarding a planet fit for our children and grandchildren to live in. Improving our public transport is not only about protecting our environment, it's also about the quality of life in communities all over England and Wales.

Decent public transport is essential for access to work across the economy, it also means that grandparents get to see their grandkids, and working parents get home earlier to spend time with their children, we call get to share in culture and entertainment. It means that teenagers can get to school and adult learners can access training that can transform lives. It means people on low incomes can visit town centre shops, and businesses can get the customers they need to reinvigorate local economies.

For too long, people have had to put up with inadequate services. All too often, buses are expensive and infrequent, with routes that get cut because the private providers are driven more by private profit than by a public service ethos. Train services are expensive and chaotic, with services frequently delayed – when they're not cancelled at short notice due to staffing levels cut to the bone and maintenance services outsourced and short-staffed. The transport workforce has suffered alongside passengers. Years of frozen pay and attacks on terms and conditions are a poor reward for those on the frontline during the pandemic.

Public transport fit for the climate emergency sets out a plan for the investment in public transport throughout England and Wales that has long been needed. From town and cities, to villages and rural communities, this plan would mean more services, new routes, cheaper fares and modern fleets of low emission vehicles. This radical transformation must be funded by central government and delivered by local and regional transport authorities. And we should all get a say on the transport needs where we live and how this investment is allocated. Passengers, local communities, and transport workers should all be consulted on public transport improvement plans where they live and work.

The investment proposed by this report would achieve the transition to low-carbon transport needed to honour our climate action agreements with the rest of the world. It would generate green and sustainable economic growth in regions across England and Wales. And it would directly create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the transport sector, plus many more in construction and manufacturing supply chains.

As well as cheaper, more extensive and reliable buses, trams and trains, we would have cleaner air to breath. And the roads would be less congested for all road users.

To make sure that every community benefits as fully as possible, with ongoing investment and the best value fares, our public transport should be publicly owned.

The climate emergency means we must act. But the benefits of affordable, reliable and extensive public transport are so great that we should want to anyway – for the lower cost of living and higher quality of life it will bring. This report lays out the blueprint for 21st century public transport, all that's left is to build it."

"The European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF), which represents more than 5 million transport workers from more than 200 transport unions and 40 European countries, is a pan-European trade union organisation which embraces transport trade unions from the European Union, the European Economic Area and central and eastern European countries. Livia Spera has been the acting general secretary since 2019. Having studied sociology at both the University of Milan and the University of Warwick, the Italian trade unionist joined the ETF in 2005 to work on matters concerning dockers and fisheries. She specialises in European policy matters relating to transport and kindly granted us this interview in order to provide an in-depth analysis of the issues facing the transport industry."

"Représentant plus de cinq millions de travailleurs des transports à travers plus de deux cents syndicats des transports basés dans quarante pays européens, la Fédération européenne des travailleurs des transports (European Transport Workers' Federation, ETF) est l'organisation syndicale paneuropéenne qui regroupe les syndicats des transports de l'Union européenne, de l'Espace économique européen et des pays d'Europe centrale et orientale. Depuis 2019, Livia Spera est sa secrétaire générale par intérim. Sociologue de formation issue des universités de Milan et de Warwick, la syndicaliste italienne a intégré l'ETF dès 2005 pour s'investir dans le secteur des dockers et de la pêche. Elle est spécialiste des questions politiques européennes liées au transport, et nous accorde cet entretien afin d'approfondir les enjeux auxquels doit faire face ce secteur."

"L'asbl Amazone s'est vu confier par Mme Brigitte Grouwels, Ministre bruxelloise des Travaux Publics, des Transports, de l'Informatique et du Port de Bruxelles sous la législature 2009-2014, une mission d'information sur le thème « Genre et espaces publics ». Cette mission d'information générale complète la tenue d'une table-ronde sur le même sujet, plus spécifique cette fois, réunissant des habitantes de Saint-Josse-ten-Noode qui se sont exprimées et ont échangé sur leur situation dans le cadre de vie des espaces publics tenoodois.

Grâce aux études et recherches dans les domaines de sciences humaines, l'espace est peu à peu sorti de sa neutralité sociale. La recherche féministe est allée plus loin en constatant que l'espace reflète les rapports sociaux de genre. Depuis, monde académique, société civile des femmes, les institutions internationales et plus récemment les décideurs politiques se sont emparé de la question sous différents angles. ..."

"There is extensive literature that explains how liberalization policy deepens and widens. In the literature of European integration such reform is commonly considered to be the result of a bias towards liberalization in the treaties, thereby giving the European Commission and the European Court of Justice wide-ranging leverage to enforce such reform. However, such approaches have been criticized for being de-politicized – for failing to understand the conflicts inherent in controversial policies. It is therefore of interest to explore the scope conditions of this constitutional bias assumption in areas where liberalization policy is disputed. This article analyzes the EU decisionmaking processes across the postal, public transport and port service sectors, highlighting three key conditions, in addition to the treaties' legal foundation. These are: the organization of public services; mobilization by large interests, such as trade unions; and how willing the European Commission is to give in to concessional demands."

"This book tells a story of privatisation on the London Underground. Privatisation - the Public-Private Partnership - was announced by New Labour in 1998. It was implemented in 2003. By 2010 it had failed. What went wrong? Public-Private Partnership failed because privatisation rewards manager, shareholders and lawyers. The look after themselves first. Other concerns were neglected - service, safety and improved access for disabled passengers. Published during London Underground's 150th birthday year, this book draws extensively on interviews with managers and Tube workers. It both sketches the history of the Underground and looks to the future. We need a better plan for transport - a socialist policy that involves passengers and workers and prioritises public service. "

"Les études concernant les expositions ou maladies professionnelles des personnels de maintenance sont peu nombreuses, de même que les analyses en situation de ces activités, de leurs organisations désormais variées, et de leurs conséquences sur la sécurité. Les objectifs de l'étude menée par l'INRS consistaient à identifier les expositions professionnelles de ces salariés et à améliorer la compréhension des activités et organisations réelles de maintenance par des observations dans une entreprise spécialisée dans le transport urbain de passagers."

"La mort annoncée du monde ouvrier ne doit pas cacher ni la pérennité de cette condition (près du quart de la population active), ni les transformations en cours, notamment dans certaines fractions de la jeunesse. Invisibles, délaissés politiquement, les ouvriers ne semblent plus capables de faire entendre leur voix. Pourtant, un ouvrier sur quatre a aujourd'hui entre 15 et 29 ans et, si les travaux sur les générations antérieures ont été nombreux, la jeunesse ouvrière semble d'autant plus invisible aujourd'hui qu'elle est peu explorée. L'enquête ethnographique présentée dans cet ouvrage, et qui a été menée pendant huit ans sur de jeunes ouvriers de la maintenance des trains à la RATP, entend donner à voir un univers social peu visible à trois titres : le monde ouvrier déjà, celui du public ensuite, la jeunesse ouvrière enfin. Elle nous amène à suivre des trajectoires de jeunes, de leur sortie de l'école à leur insertion dans le monde du travail, de leur quotidien dans l'atelier à leurs activités en dehors, de leurs acceptations des contraintes managériales à de nouvelles formes de résistances au travail... Ainsi, ce livre se propose de répondre à trois questions : Qu'est-ce qu'être un jeune ouvrier et comment ces jeunes vivent-ils cette condition ? En quoi cette génération apparaît-elle distante de celle qui la précède ? En quoi la perméabilité aux normes managériales du secteur privé tend à remettre en cause la "particularité" de ces ouvriers de la RATP et une certaine idée du service public ?"