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A comment on Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free.

Re:Luxembourg to become first country to make all public tra... by Gibbon1 on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @09:03PM (#18614752)
In the context of heavily subsidized roads and freeways, free public transit makes sense on pure balance sheet economics. It costs the state more for someone to drive than the cost for them to take a bus for free.

Also I think free buses potentially means you can design buses for very quick entry/exit.

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Re:Luxembourg to become first country to make all public tra... by ksec on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:09AM (#18616248)
I assume they are preparing for Self Driven Buses in the future? I don't know about property market in Luxembourg, ( properly not anywhere heated as SV ) but it should gives incentive for people to live further away from City Centre.
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