Estonian capital to offer free public transport - Polidicks

Get on our level Tallinn: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/78CQh.png[/IMG] 30 days travel? That'd be 120 bux.

[QUOTE=Swebonny;39129519]Get on our level Tallinn: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/78CQh.png[/IMG] 30 days travel? That'd be 120 bux.[/QUOTE] before this free system we had to pay like 7 euros for 30 days, so to us this feels like a really small step forward.

68 bucks for a month for glorious american public transit, and that's student pricing

Good plan. Wishing it's going to come to Brussels because the traffic in Brussels is a nightmarish hellhole. [QUOTE=znk666;39128259]Are you implying that democracy is actually possible under capitalism?[/QUOTE] Are you implying it isn't? How a state is governed is independent from its economical point of view.

IMO should've kept it. Long time I read that they already had not enough funding for public transport to keep it up, now they lost another way of income - buying tickets. Another, and very retarded thing about this, is that you have to punch in your card every time you visit your fucking bus/tram/trolleybus. It's like government wants to keep track where and how you go, and just today while going INTO City Center it worked, and when going OUT OF city center it didn't want to validate my card. People rate winner, but don't realize that our public transport is a not so good shape. Trams and trolleys which are most of the time cold inside during winter, they also break a lot of times, the list goes on. They have rushed this in, but should've checked for these flaws. I hope they will at least remove the rule to validate your ride every time you enter the transport, it's so useless its annoying. P.S.: Last two cents - they forced us to buy these redundant cards while earlier you could use your ID card for traveling. Why couldn't they leave it as it was is beyond me, but I guess they just wanted our money. Eh..

If you want to travel in the entire Oslo area, you'll have to shell out $270 for 30 days. Just the main part of Oslo is $110. [img]http://www2.ruter.no/Global/Designmanual/Trafikantinformasjon og markedsføring/3.11.1_Reisekort.gif[/img]

[QUOTE=LarparNar;39129607]If you want to travel in the entire Oslo area, you'll have to shell out $270 for 30 days. Just the main part of Oslo is $110. [img]http://www2.ruter.no/Global/Designmanual/Trafikantinformasjon og markedsføring/3.11.1_Reisekort.gif[/img][/QUOTE] They have rigid prices in Oslo. 4 Euro for a fucking 0,5 cola, but even then they have high as fuck salaries so that knocks it off. Don't forget that with that monthly fee of $270 you can use: Bus Tram Boats (yes) Trains Metro So i guess it pays it off.

[QUOTE=Stopper;39129498] Hopefully, more cities will adopt this over time. What's the next smallest capital in Europe?[/QUOTE] I have no idea really. Tallinn is fairly small by capital standards, there should be a list somewhere. Edit Next capital after Tallinn should be Ljubljana in Slovenia

My sister hitchhiked all the way to Tallinn once from Sheffield. Its a nice city, I planned to visit over Christmas but I couldn't really afford it.

[QUOTE=NoDachi;39129692]My sister hitchhiked all the way to Tallinn once from Sheffield. Its a nice city, I planned to visit over Christmas but I couldn't really afford it.[/QUOTE] You should, it's comparatively cheap, small, not hard to navigate, has some smoking girls. Bestonia :v:

[QUOTE=Swebonny;39129519]Get on our level Tallinn: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/78CQh.png[/IMG] 30 days travel? That'd be 120 bux.[/QUOTE] It's so fucking expensive, I used to get a 6 month one free at school every half year since 90% of the students in the school couldn't get there without one of those cards.

[QUOTE=Dark RaveN;39129729]You should, it's comparatively cheap, small, not hard to navigate, has some smoking girls. Bestonia :v:[/QUOTE] I do plan to some day, maybe next year. It was going to be a christmas present for my girlfriend (hey grandparents were from near Tallinn)

[QUOTE=Dark RaveN;39129600]Another, and very retarded thing about this, is that you have to punch in your card every time you visit your fucking bus/tram/trolleybus. It's like government wants to keep track where and how you go[/QUOTE] Route optimisation and travel statistics. Every transport service provider in big cities does this. If you don't like it, get the anonymous card.

[QUOTE=Jaanus;39129752] If you don't like it, get the anonymous card.[/QUOTE] First time heard of it, what about it?

Go to an R-kiosk and buy a card, don't register online. Done.

yeah, you don't have to associate it with your identity if you don't want to

sounds awesome too bad I don't live in Tallinn, might move there when/if I get into the TTÜ.

[QUOTE=Jaanus;39129799]Go to an R-kiosk and buy a card, don't register online. Done.[/QUOTE] But to get the right of free pass you must register it on your ID.

Deal with it. [editline]7th January 2013[/editline] Giving your travel info for free passes would be the least you could do.

[QUOTE=Dark RaveN;39130065]But to get the right of free pass you must register it on your ID.[/QUOTE] Why you care is the question I'll ask. The government doesn't exactly care about where you specifically are. They use the card for statistics, that's it.

[QUOTE=EcksDee;39129352]They're green and pretty, you can't even tell that there's an RFID chip in it. Fairly modern design.[/QUOTE] if you hold up the ones helsinki uses to the light you can see the RFID wires inside. [editline]7th January 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Dark RaveN;39129729]You should, it's comparatively cheap, small, not hard to navigate, has some smoking girls. Bestonia :v:[/QUOTE] Might visit this summer, some girl said she would host me if she had space, so I get to see Pärnu and all that

[QUOTE=BloodRayne;39127325]Early form of communism? Still great idea really, reduces traffic, creates jobs as more people use public transport, reduces pollution too and overall fuel usage due to less vehicles on the road.[/QUOTE] 'Government services paid by taxes? MUST BE COMMUNISM!'

[QUOTE=trotskygrad;39130427]if you hold up the ones helsinki uses to the light you can see the RFID wires inside. [editline]7th January 2013[/editline] Might visit this summer, some girl said she would host me if she had space, so I get to see Pärnu and all that[/QUOTE] Come to Tartu

[QUOTE=Jaanus;39130552]Come to Tartu[/QUOTE] maybe... still in planning stages

lets have a fp party in tartu

Mina toon viinad.

Viljandi master race. Get over here. Atleast during Folk somebody shows up here. Otherwise it is a ghosttown-ish town.

[QUOTE=EddieLTU;39128077]oh a e-card? how nice. here in lithuania we got this system for like 3 years[/QUOTE] Tell me how exchanging potatoes for bus rides works.