Citizens in Monheim will be able to ride buses without a ticket from April 2020, regional newspaper the Rheinische Post has reported.
The radical plan is a bid to reduce air pollution by encouraging more people to ditch their cars and take public transport.
The move comes after the German government last year said it was considering free public transport “to reduce the number of private cars”.
Since then, five German cities – Bonn, Essen, Herrenberg, Mannheim and Reutlingen – have been earmarked to offer significantly cheaper transport tickets, with the government poised to subsidize the projects with €128 million to help cover the income shortfall.
https://www.thelocal.de/20190618/why-this-german-city-plans-to-make-public-transport-free?
