Belgrade becomes Europe’s first major city to offer free public transport | eKathimerini.com

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1. Wasn’t their public transport old Yugoslav remnant tram lines? Those trams likely ended their commercial life already.

2. If it’s anything like Sofia, people weren’t paying for it anyway 🤣

3. Luxembourg has free public transport in the entire country since March 2020

4. Belgrade iz choking in traffic. Traffic jams are enormous and are now regularly happening at any given moment during the day. This is the last ditch effort to make people use cars less.

5. Tallinn has had free transport for… years already.

   I guess we live here in a ‘minor’ city? 😀

6. Just to add a bit context here, currently in Serbia there are massive protests. Faculties and high schools are blocked, people are blocking the streets everyday at noon etc. This is just a populist decision to get some of the people on Vucic’s side. And also, as another commenter said, most of the people didn’t even pay for the transport in the first place.

7. This is not true. In Luxembourg public transportation is free for everyone since 2020.

8. Great for Belgrade, but it’s not the first.
   Luxembourg has free transport since… 2020 or so. In the whole country.

9. The whole country of Luxembourg has had free public transport since 2020.

   Edit: free*

10. luxembourg

11. ITT: people not understanding the meanings of the words “major” and “city”

12. Tallinn: Am I a joke to you?

13. Luxemburg: “Am I a joke to you?” 🇱🇺 😞

14. Luxembourg?

15. Do not fall for this being any sort of progressive manoeuvre, it’s pure populist propaganda move to quell ongoing protests caused by [criminal negligence and corruption](https://balkaninsight.com/2024/11/05/grief-sparks-furious-protest-in-serbia-after-novi-sad-station-disaster/) by the current ruling party.

16. That’s not true but ok. Luxembourg did it first nationwide

17. Luxembourg motherfuckers

18. Puuuuumpaaaj

19. > no buses will be more than two years old by 2025.

    Ahahaha, good joke from our beloved major… That’s next year and half of our buses are older than 10-15 years. How are they thinking to perform this?

20. We been doing this for years for the whole country in Luxembourg #SmallButMighty

21. The Belgium city of Hasselt, the French city of Aubagne and the Estonian capital Tallinn have had (or have) free public transport. 

    https://www.thebulletin.be/hasselt-ends-free-public-transport-scheme

    In Hasselt, a drop in unemployment was observed as a result of the free transport.

    I’m all for it.

22. Luxembourg doesn’t count? It’s even the entire country.

23. Errr Luxembourg called, wants its OG free transport title put back please

24. Kinda funny that Greek (e)newspaper that’s primarily focused on reporting internal stuff is the one reporting on this.

25. Didn’t Luxemburg do this also?

26. luxembourg did so 4 years ago

27. It’s easy to make something that doesn’t exist completely free 😭

28. Didn’t one of the capitals of the Baltics do this?

29. Laughs in Tallinn

30. People, we are currently sitting on a powder keg in Serbia, situation is heated and it can burst any time. People are sick of Vučić and his cronies. He is lying, corrupt piece of shit that will do anything in his power to stay in his comfy chair. He will steal, kill and bribe, hell, he will do anything.

    This is just one of measures to try and put out fires that are currently burning all across our country. Don’t take this as some kind of progressive measure because it is not.

31. The whole population of Luxembourg fighting in the comments

32. I guess Luxembourg doesn’t qualify either. We too small 😂!

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