Luxembourg’s Wanderers to Swivel around for Free

By: Norhan Mahmoud 

CAIRO, Dec. 9 (SEE)-  The Grand Duchy, aka Luxembourg, announced that all of its public transport will be free of charge for everyone starting 2020, The Guardian reported. 

This initiative comes within Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and his coalition government’s eco plans to go more environmentally friendly, legalizing cannabis and two new public holidays are also on the way. 

Since 2018’s summer, children and youth under 20 have been enjoying free public transport on buses, trams and trains. Such steps are beneficial not only to environment but also to the jammed streets of the country, that also provides subsidies to other residents to cut travel costs.

Although, Luxembourg city’s, the capital, residents are only 110,000 persons yet the city suffers from one of the world’s worst traffic congestion as 400,000 commuters, about half of them from its neighboring border-countries such as France, Belgium and Germany, transport within the capital for work.

In fact, the city has the highest car-to-person rate all over the European Union: 662 cars for each 1000 people, as per The NewYork Times.

FYI, it only needs €2 for a two-hours journey across the tiny European country- but who does not like free rides!