“Commuter systems: ‘Many local authorities waste money’”
Zeit Online
A lack of an overarching transportation concept and an emphasis on unneeded projects causes many local authorities in Germany to waste money on public transport systems, transportation consultant Stefan Weigele said in an interview with Zeit Online. Many cities funded overlapping transport services rather than pooling resources, Weigele explained. He called for “an integrated and coordinated concept for ticket prices of urban mobility that reaches from public transport over parking fees to taxis and car sharing.”
Read the interview in German here.
For more information, see the CLEW dossier The energy transition and Germany’s transport sector.
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