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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: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Thursday May 24 2018, @02:44PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) on Thursday May 24 2018, @02:44PM (#683563)

    Long distance telephone service in the USA was the same way, back when the market would accept $5/minute during business hours it doesn't matter if billing cost 5 cents per minute, but when technology drove the cost of service to less than a penny and only drove the cost of billing down to two cents or so, people paid a long distance bill that primarily funded sending them long distance bills and only a small fraction of the bill went toward providing long distance service, also a large fraction of revenue went out the door to advertising. That's all pretty much gone away now, but telecom billing in, perhaps, the 90s, was insane.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday May 24 2018, @07:55PM (1 child)

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday May 24 2018, @07:55PM (#683716) Journal

    but telecom billing in, perhaps, the 90s, was insane.

    Yeah, its so much better now that every person over 15 yrsold is paying 30 to 60 dollars a month for cell service.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @11:04PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @11:04PM (#683794)

      Cellphones let you do things landlines never could: download hop-hop, order fried chicken online, get tweets from the Kardashians. Without cellphone-induced distractions, the njiggers might wise up and overthrow the man. The government should be subsidizing cellphones for the valuable service they provide.