Ellie Harrison

After 15 years campaigning with Bring Back British Rail, read my opinion piece for LBC reflecting on last week's historic announcement on rail renationalisation🚆🥳 👇

Great British Railways should be the start of a new era for our country’s transport network, which everyone can get behind I won’t have been the only pissed-off rail passenger cheering last week when the King’s Speech announced plans to bring the private train operators back into public ownership when their current contracts end – and to create a new public body ‘Great British Railways’ to plan and coordinate ...

Almost 15 years ago exactly I set-up Bring Back British Rail to campaign for a re-unified national rail network run for people not profit 🚆 Today's finally announces legislation to make this a reality as 👏 What a historic day!

Bring Back British Rail protest 2011 (Photo: Robin Prime) bringbackbritishrail.org

One year ago today! 🪩🛼 The last ever 'Bus Regulation: The Musical' was staged at The Black-E Liverpool in collaboration with Better Buses for Merseyside 🚍 Starring skaters from Liverpool Roller Birds & Wirral Roller Derby the Musical tells the history of public transport on Merseyside & helped pave the way for Steve Rotheram's historic decision to take the region's buses back into public control 👏 watch the full show here 👇

Bus Regulation: The Musical (Merseyside) at The Black-E Liverpool Full-length film of the Merseyside version of Ellie Harrison's 'Bus Regulation: The Musical' Trilogy re-staged at The Black-E Liverpool on 15 July 2023 in co...

I cannot wait to see the back of Avanti West Coast (aka FirstGroup!) 🙏🤞 It's time to Bring Back British Rail ✊ Get yourself a Bumper Sticker here: bringbackbritishrail.org/merch

🚆Is the writing on the wall for Avanti West Coast?
If The Labour Party win the election this Thursday, they’ve pledged to renationalise the line when the current contract ends on 18 October 2026 🥳 We’ll be working to ensure this happens ✊ Get your own Bumper Sticker here 👇
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After 15 years of campaigning, could Thursday's election finally be our chance to Bring Back British Rail? 🚆🙏

We’re delighted to see The Labour Party commit to plans to bring our railways back into public ownership within the next parliamentary term 👏 With all the Department for Transport's current contracts with private operators set to expire by 2027, they would be mad not to 🚆 bringbackbritishrail.org/news

More inclusive communities: are 20-minute neighbourhoods part of the answer? 🚶‍♂️🚴‍♀️🌳 I'm delighted to be speaking on the panel at this important UN House Scotland event in Edinburgh this Thursday 23 May, 1:30pm 🤗 book your free ticket 👇

More inclusive communities -are 20-minute neighborhoods part of the answer? Join us to find out if creating 20-minute neighborhoods are part of the answer

Women disproportionately rely on public transport, yet decisions about how it's run are largely made by men🤦‍♀️🚍 No wonder it's in such a mess! I'm delighted to be representing Get Glasgow Moving at this important FREE conference this Saturday!
🎟️ Sign up here: bit.ly/4aKCdvJ

Last chance to join us tomorrow for our FREE conference in Glasgow!🗓️

This event aims to explore women's perspectives on the transportation system in Scotland and how we can make it better.🚗🚌

We are excited to have the below speakers joining the panel:
▪️ Bettina Sizeland, Director of Bus, Accessibility & Active Travel at Transport Scotland
▪️ Lara Henderson, Development Officer at Community Transport Association (CTA)
▪️ Ellie Harrison, Co-Founder and Chair of Get Glasgow Moving

Don't miss out 👇
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Find out more about Glasgow Community Energy's new 'Cathy McCormack Community Activism Fund', named in honour of Glasgow's late great activist & anti-poverty campaigner 👇

Check out this brilliant Glasgow Times article celebrating the launch of our new 'Cathy McCormack Community Activism Fund', set up in honour of Glasgow's late great activist & anti-poverty campaigner 👏 The £10,000 pot has been generated over the last three years from selling our renewable energy 🌞

This Weds 27 March, 6pm - don't miss Glasgow Community Energy's free A People Powered Future for Glasgow event! 🌞 I'll be speaking about our new 'Cathy McCormack Community Activism Fund', named in honour of Glasgow's late great activist and anti-poverty campaigner ✊ Please join us to find out more 👇

A People Powered Future for Glasgow Glasgow Community Energy - AGM 2024

Friday was an epic day for Better Buses for Strathclyde and the culmination more than 7 years campaigning 🚍✊ Only another 7 to go until all the buses in our region are properly regulated!🥳

"SPT pushes ahead with plans for bus franchise"🚍 Great coverage in today's HeraldScotland of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT)'s historic decision 👏 This is a massive win for the people of Strathclyde, but the campaign continues! Sign up here to join us: ✍️betterbuses.uk/strathclyde

I was back at The Scottish Parliament to meet Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop MSP today! Let's hope she'll help us deliver Better Buses for Strathclyde 🙏🚍

It was great to meet Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop MSP at the Scottish Parliament today to discuss our Centre for Cities report on transforming public transport in the Glasgow City Region 🚍🚇🚆

We hope that she and Transport Scotland will fund its recommendations to help SPT bring the bus network back into public control, so it can integrate routes, timetable and tickets with Glasgow Subway and ScotRail

Want to know more about the quiet revolution in public transport unfolding across Britain over the next few years? 🚍 Don't miss my new article for the Scottish Left Review ✊ You can read more about Better Buses for Greater Manchester, Better Buses for West Yorkshire, Better Buses for South Yorkshire & our new Better Buses for Strathclyde campaign 👇

Scottish Left Review England can teach our public bodies lessons about how to finally deliver fully-integrated transport networks, writes Ellie Harrison.

Hello friends, I need your help at this crucial point in our long fight to get our region's bus network back in public control! 🚍✊ Please sign & share the Better Buses for Strathclyde petition before we deliver it to Strathclyde Partnership for Transport this Friday 23 February, 9:30am 🙏 We're aiming for 10,000 signatures by then!

Take Strathclyde’s Buses back into Public Control Bus services across Strathclyde are in crisis, but we have a chance to turn things around. Join me in supporting the Better Buses campaign to bring Strathclyde's buses back into public control.

Did you miss 'Bus Regulation: The Musical' in Glasgow last year? 🪩🛼 Well fear not, we will be screening the film this Saturday 27 January, 11am at Glasgow Eco Trust's AGM and film screening at Heart of Scotstoun Community Centre 🤩 Please come on down!

Bus Regulation: The Musical by Ellie Harrison performed at Platform Glasgow on 28 January 2023 🛼🚍🪩🎶 Find out more at: ellieharrison.com/strathclyde 📷 Erika Stevenson

It's the people versus the private bus companies ✊🚍 Join us!

"Campaigners staged a rally outside Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) offices to demand the bus network be returned to public control" 🚍✊ Thanks to Glasgow Times for covering our demo! 🗞️ Please keep signing & sharing the petition to help us keep the pressure up ✍️ betterbuses.uk/strathclyde

"We want our Buses back!" 🚍✊ Great article about the new Better Buses for Strathclyde campaign in today's The National Newspaper, featuring an interview with yours truly 🥳

"We want our Buses back!" 🚍✊ Great coverage of our Better Buses for Strathclyde campaign in today's The National Newspaper 👏 Please make sure you join our Demonstration: Take Strathclyde’s Buses back into Public Control this Friday 15 December, 9am at SPT Offices and Sign the petition✍️ betterbuses.uk/strathclyde

This year marks the beginning of the end for bus deregulation 🚍✊ Read more about the impact of my ‘Bus Regulation: The Musical’ Trilogy in Greater Manchester, Merseyside & Strathclyde in this new blog for the University of Dundee & Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee websites 👇

Turning the tide on bus deregulation Ellie Harrison, Artist, activist and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art Practice, tells the story of her award-winning Bus Regulation: The Musical Trilogy and the impact that it has had.

I'm so excited to be speaking on the panel at this sustainable travel event at Perth Theatre and Concert Hall this Saturday! 🚍 I'll be offering my advice to Tactran on how they can help ✊

If you're out and about in Perth city centre this Saturday 11 November, pop round to the Concert Hall to visit our FREE and fun Ticket to Ride event highlighting sustainable travel!

🎨View creative work exploring sustainable travel and visit the Travelling Gallery art exhibition on a bus! 🚌

🎼Enjoy music from the Kinross Kacophony Orchestra 🎻

🎤Join in a panel discussion and roundtable with local experts and activists about the future of bus travel in Perth & Kinross

🎬 View a film created by artist Helen McCrorie and Craigie Choir exploring buses for communities

No need to book, free to drop in!

📅 Saturday 11 November: 13:00 - 16:00
📍 Perth Concert Hall
🎟 perththeatreandconcerthall.com/whats-on/ticket-to-ride-get-on-board-with-sustainable-travel

This event is part of Perth Concert Hall's Transforming Audience Travel Through Art project, with Creative Carbon Scotland, funded by Paths for All Smarter Choices Smarter Places programme.

Great day at The Scottish Parliament yesterday presenting Get Glasgow Moving's new Centre for Cities report to MSPs 🤩

Today Get Glasgow Moving launches a new report with Centre for Cities on Improving Public Transport in the Glasgow City Region 🥳 I'm delighted to be quoted by BBC Scotland News explaining what needs to be done 👇

Could Glasgow return to the orange buses of the 80s? Manchester has brought its buses back under public control - so could Glasgow make a similar move?

I'm really excited to be helping to launch the new Better Buses for Strathclyde campaign 🚍✊ We will ensure that SPT follows Greater Manchester's & Liverpool City Region's examples and takes our buses back into public control!

Chance to revolutionise Strathclyde buses a 'once-in-a-generation' opportunity EARLIER this year, Greater Manchester retook control of its buses following decades of deregulation.

Don't miss Bus Regulation: The Musical & the fight for Greater Manchester's buses - my special artist’s talk, screening & discussion at Manchester Art Gallery on Sunday 24 September to celebrate the launch of the Bee Network 🚍🚉🚆🐝 Find out more and book FREE tickets: beenetwork.eventbrite.com

I've been a tenant at Wasps Artists' Studios - Hanson Street, Glasgow since the end of 2010. I'm proud to be supporting this artist-led campaign to ✊ Please help by signing & sharing our petition 👇

Help save artists' studios across Scotland Wasps is by far the biggest studio provider in Scotland, managing twenty buildings across the country – in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Perth, Irvine, Kirkcudbright, Newburgh, Selkirk, Nairn, Skye, Shetland and Orkney. These are home to 1,000 artists – a large percentage of t...

Twelve years on. I'm still loving being the Agent for The Artists' Bond 🥳

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