ABSTRACT
To close this volume, this chapter seeks to draw many of the book’s themes together around the idea that public policymakers can play an important role in promoting and enabling communityowned transport. For communityowned transport to achieve its full potential and to play a significant role in sustainable transport, the cooperation and direct involvement of governments will be helpful, if not essential. In making the case for changes to public policy to promote com munityowned transport, some of the prevailing views in contemporary politics of minimising the role of government are challenged, which in many jurisdictions requires recognising the limits of the neoliberal position. An overriding rationale for such public policy interventions is that many of the barriers facing community ownership are the outcomes of historical and current public policies and estab lished government practices. Overcoming these barriers and reversing some of their effects requires changes to public policy. This chapter finishes with a vision for communityowned transport as sustainable transport.
