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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3The city of Hasselt (pop. 77k) in Belgium faced a similar problem in the mid 1990s as to whether to build another outer ring road and somehow sanity prevailed and they actually opted to make all public transport in the city free.
But before making it free, they increased the size of the fleet and improved the bus schedule by making them more frequent. They have never looked back since. Oh and yes, they found that they didn't need the outer ring road after all.
Full account of it can be found here at the URL below or just google around.
Nice idea Terence,
now let's see you put the following words in a positive sentence: government, public-transport, free.
I thought not.
The Hasselt experience is the way to go. It is only by making public transport free that it becomes attractive enough for many drivers to leave the cars at home, or even in the showroom. It also actually makes the provision of public transport more efficient, because the whole bean counting exercise of ticketing disappears!
Its' only problem is it does not suit the agendas of the road lobbies (less vehicles on fewer roads), or even the public transport providers (who dedicate significant resources into fare collection). No wonder this successful innovation is viewed as a scheme for crackpots!