Officials in Luxembourg said that, while lower emissions are a nice side effect, the primary purpose of the decision to offer free transportation is to help reduce inequality and provide more efficient mobility.
Source – whowhatwhy.org
– “…The fare-free idea is not entirely unprecedented. In 2018, Estonia eliminated all fares on its public buses. After Dunkirk, France, a city of 200,000, began offering no-charge bus service, ridership increased 50 percent. But Luxembourg is the first country to offer free travel on all modes of public transportation”
Can Free Public Transportation Transform a Country?
Trains in Luxembourg. Photo credit: Michael Day / Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
The small country of Luxembourg launched an interesting social experiment this week: If you make public transportation free in a country that has the European Union’s (EU) highest number of cars per capita, will people ditch their automobiles and switch to trains, buses, and streetcars?
As of March 1, anybody in this country of 600,000 can use all of these modes of transportation for free — regardless of whether they are a resident; a cross-border worker commuting from…
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