Young people should be able to travel for free in Geneva

Geneva and the lake © Xavier von Erlach 2020 Unsplash

Geneva and the lake © Xavier von Erlach 2020 Unsplash

The canton of Geneva could make local public transport free of charge. Interviewed by "La Tribune de Genève", Vincent Kaufmann, professor at the Urban Sociology Laboratory, believes that this will relieve students' budgets, but that the greatest potential for modal shift will be felt by young people already in employment, since they tend to own cars more than their student peers.

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