Even with the organizers offering free transport and free admission, popular success is no sure thing.
"Care homes have very clear responsibilities about providing free transport for residents.
Anxious to quickly demonstrate some tangible benefits, he plans to provide free transport to and from the campus.
How fitting if the third finished the job and began to free transport from oil's century-long monopoly.
Some of that is down to the EU, the free transport of goods and services and, especially, the Schengen treaty.
Many also regard free transport and subsidised utilities and medicines as rightful recognition of past services to the state.
Ferguson however argued for free transport paid for by new taxes on anyone earning more than £14,000 a year.
Compare that to £142,500 a year, free accommodation, free transport, a full pension and a £1m book deal when you leave.
"It is a question of what they give us," said Tatyana Bolshakova, 77, an invalid who said she gets free transport and about $40 a month in medicine.
The city of Hasselt in Belgium had free transport for 16 years but they had to reintroduce fares when it became financially unsustainable.
With his background and his talent for languages, Ray fitted easily into the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the commission, pursuing the ideal of free transport movement across Europe.
