YUROP

1265 readers

629 users here now

A laid back community for good news, pictures and general discussions among people living in Europe.

Other European communities

[email protected]

Other casual communities:

Language communities

Cities

Countries

founded 11 months ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

325

Public transport use soars in Montpellier a year after becoming free (www.euronews.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

34 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

Your point is valid, if not well presented ; doesn't deserve the downvotes imho!

Making public transit free instead of making it better, and then use the fact that nobody uses it anyway to demantle it further, is a bad thing. I think Not Just Bikes touched on that in one of its videos.

But it's not always the case that free = bad. If it's already efficient and continues to improve, it can accelerate the growth of public transit. Luxembourg city is one example I know where it seems to be working, and a "good faith" effort.