Pretty awesome. It's obvious it could also be a huge benefit in this country too, but it's also painfully obvious that everyone in charge is thinking: "but they're giving us money now, why should it stop? We don't owe them anything!"
I'd travel around my neck of the woods so much more if it was free tbh.
The reason behind it is to make people want to live in smaller towns and communities not so much for traveling. I hope it works out, it's only like a 3-4 hr drive to get across the whole country but the countryside is bleeding dry of people and everyone is moving into like 1 city(Tallinn) and 1 half-city(Tartu).
Honestly been considering moving to Estonia for a while now. Netherlands has been going downhill fast for a while.
I can only dream of this happening here in the UK. Trains are so insanely expensive that living further out for cheaper rent doesn't outweigh the travel costs, hell my motorbike is cheaper than zone 3-2 travel in London it's ridiculous
Easy tiger. Estonia has lots of issues the Netherlands wouldn't even dream of.
Allan Alaküla explains why this is a good idea.
The fact that this has to be explained is pretty sad.
Not at all. There are going to be a lot of people complaining about it coming out of their taxes.
I think this is a great thing though. It'll give poorer people a lot more mobility so they can expand outwards to take jobs in places further from home so they can pull themselves out of poverty. Also it'll keep normal people off the road so only enthusiasts will be driving
Not all public transport is going to be free, but there are going to be some free bus lines.
I have no idea how the fuck is this even going to work and I haven't understood any of the articles about it, but I guess we'll see.
I wonder what direct savings there would be with free public transport. Wouldn't need to pay for an electronic tagging system and it's maintenance for one thing
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