Remember Captain Commuter – Rebecca Turner? Annoyed at poor public transport, she set up shityrail.info in around 2004 and activated a grassroots movement. I can’t remember what her call to action was – boycott buses on a particular day? – but it got the attention of our politicians, and lots of press.
Social Media Asia
Singapore has a similiar revolt going on. Bernard Chan, a student, has set up National Petition for Fairer Transport Fares for students.
Hub and spoke network
Bernard Chan set up a hub – a website (wordpress blog at petition4fairtransport.org ) and the spoke is mostly Facebook. There is also on the ground activities around asking people to sign a “real world” petition.
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