Thursday, February 20, 2014

Savisaar: EU's urban policy should green-light public transport

Edgar Savisaar and Jose Manuel Barroso. Photo: tallinn.ee
The Baltic Course: "...our capital Tallinn has a year-old experience of keeping public transport fare at its lowest, i.e. zero. And I assure you that free public transport does strengthen society’s social ties while stimulating local economy and sparing environment. This is, indeed, smart policy. Green-lighting public transport is certainly one of the goals that the urban policy of European Union should support more effectively than the EU policy thus far," Savisaar stressed in his speech."