Re: Free public transport...here are my thoughts...

Krist van Besien (no@commercial.email.please)
Wed, 08 Oct 1997 16:27:03 GMT

On Tue, 07 Oct 1997 22:21:11 GMT,
billbolton@REMOVE-TO-EMAIL.acslink.net.au (Bill Bolton) wrote:

>On Tue, 07 Oct 1997 18:00:42 +1000, Andrew Morgan
><advantage@ocean.com.au> wrote:
>
>>I think you will see that free public transport is not as ludicrous as
>>you may have initially thought.
>
>Been overdosing on the "idealism" pills again?!? You need to take a
>few of the "reality" pills as well.
>
>You may also want to research what happened in Milan when they tried
>an experiment with free public transport.

Currently there's an experiment with free public transport in the
Belgian town of Hasselt. So far riderschip has increased 8-fold, while
car traffic remains pretty much the same...

greetnxs,
Krist

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