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Remembering Dave Wetzel (1942-2024)
A champion of public transport and land value taxation, whose legacy lives on
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DAVE WETZEL had a profound impact on my school life, he got me and many other schoolkids on the Tube during Ken Livingstone’s Labour administration under the Greater London Council’s Fares Fair Initiative. And he later persuaded me of the advantages of land value taxation when l was serving at the London Assembly.
Dave Wetzel was born in 1942 and educated at Southall Technical College, Ealing College and the Henry George School of Social Sciences. After working as bus conductor and official in the 1960s, Wetzel became political organiser of the London Co-operative Society between 1974 and 1981.
He was the Labour Party councillor for Hammersmith North (1981-86) at the Greater London Authority and chair of the transport committee between 1981-86, and was transport chief under Livingstone involved in the Fares Fair initiative.
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