Get Glasgow Moving protest outside SPT offices in Glasgow.<br /><br />Get Glasgow Moving is a grassroots public transport campaign founded in 2016 by local people.<br /><br />We agreed to adopt the constitution below at our first Annual General Meeting held on 8 January 2019.<br /><br />The constitution entrusts the day-to-day running of the campaign to a volunteer Management Committee of 3-14 people drawn from our membership.<br /><br />Membership is open to any individual who supports the campaign’s objectives (as defined in the constitution below) or to affiliate organisations.<br /><br />In 2019 we received funding from the Foundation for Integrated Transport which enabled us to redesign our website and employ our campaigner, Rebecca Menzies, who worked with us from July 2019 – April 2020.<br /><br />The 2022 Management Committee are: Ellie Harrison (Chairperson), Susan Galloway (Treasurer), Katy Thomson (Secretary), Gavin Thomson, Brenda McKay, David Cody, Andrew Fry & Radeen Moncrieffe.<br /><br />GET GLASGOW MOVING CONSTITUTION<br />1 NAME<br />The name of the Group shall be Get Glasgow Moving, hereinafter referred to as “the Group”.<br /><br />2 OBJECTIVES<br />2.1 To help expand Greater Glasgow’s economy, address inequality and social isolation, reduce toxic levels of air pollution and tackle climate change, by campaigning for a world-class, fully-integrated & accessible, publicly-owned & accountable, public transport network for everyone in our region.<br /><br />2.2 To campaign for<br /><br />a publicly-owned bus company for Greater Glasgow, which puts people before profit, and the re-regulation of the existing private bus companies (under ‘franchising’).<br />a properly-funded, democratically-accountable ‘Transport for London-style’ regional transport authority which has power over the whole transport network (traffic/parking controls and public transport) as well as land-use planning, and which is constituted to re-invest all its income in expanding and improving services.<br />ambitious schemes to improve, expand and better integrate the existing public transport network, including: extending the Subway, building the Glasgow Metro, Glasgow’s Crossrail and the Strathclyde Tram network and re-opening disused railway stations and lines.<br />a simple multi-modal smartcard with a daily price cap.<br />affordable fares and more free access to local public transport for marginalised groups, and eventually free public transport for all.<br />any measures or initiatives that will improve, expand and better integrate Greater Glasgow’s active travel infrastructure and public transport network.<br />2.3 To be an autonomous and transparent passenger-led Group, which is not affiliated with any political parties.<br /><br />2.4 To be an open and inclusive Group, which does not tolerate any form of discrimination against people with protected characteristics as defined in the Equality Act 2010, or against people from different socio-economic backgrounds.<br /><br /><br />https://www.getglasgowmoving.org/about/<br /><br />
