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Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia

posted by martyb on Thursday May 24 2018, @08:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-price-is-right dept.

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http://www.euronews.com/2018/05/21/free-public-transport-across-estonia

Estonia is set to implement free transport for its residents across much of the country as of July 1. The free fare zone will run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/05/estonia-will-roll-out-free-public-transit-nationwide/560648/

Estonia is already a world leader in free public transit: In 2013, all public transit in its capital, Tallinn, became free to local residents (but not tourists or other visitors, even those from other parts of the country). The new national free-ride scheme will extend this model even further, making all state-run bus travel in rural municipalities free and extending cost-free transit out from the capital into other regions.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday May 24 2018, @05:43PM (4 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday May 24 2018, @05:43PM (#683642)

    Aaah, the wonders of the Trump Era!
    "They have less diversity, so they have less problems. Wink. Wink. Nudge. Nudge."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @08:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @08:51PM (#683747)

    Well it is a VLM post, that dude should be Grand Dragon Cocksucker by now. Maybe even the KKK is put off by him?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25 2018, @01:29AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25 2018, @01:29AM (#683842)

    Did you even look in Wikipedia? I don't think so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Estonia [wikipedia.org] Here's what it says: "Today, Estonia is an ethnically fairly diverse country, ranking 97th out of 239 countries and territories in 2001 study by Kok Kheng Yeoh....According to the census of 2000, 109 languages were spoken natively in Estonia. By 2011, the number of languages spoken natively had increased to 157, mainly due to new immigrants."

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday May 25 2018, @11:52AM

      by VLM (445) on Friday May 25 2018, @11:52AM (#683970)

      Read deeper, their idea of diversity is quaintly euro where the lines being redrawn repeatedly over the last centuries mean there's "true Estonians" vs "Russians" vs various others.

      Its like saying Poland was very diverse because they redrew the lines so many times that there's Germans and Poles and Russians but they're all white people who've lived in the same houses (mostly) for centuries; by diversity they don't mean some dude from another culture on the other side of the planet was transplanted there.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 27 2018, @03:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 27 2018, @03:15PM (#684827)

      http://culture-wars.com/muslim-rapists-gang-rape-torture-17-year-old-girl-set-her-vagina-on-fire/ [culture-wars.com]

      You mean the food of muslims?