Germans to safeguard environment and purse too! Soon to make public transport free

NewsBharati    15-Feb-2018
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Berlin, February 15: One of the best options to curb the air pollution is using public transport says each and every government. But this is indeed a good way to help our environment to be clean and also saving our time. More and more private vehicles will lead to a pressure on resources and will also disturb the nature’s cycle.

One of the biggest problems caused because of the increase in private vehicles is the traffic. But Germany has found out the best way to curb pollution and traffic also. The German government is considering plans to make public transport free in cities suffering from air quality problems. The letter, sent to EU Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella, was signed by German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks, Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt and chancellery chief Peter Altmaier.

Germany has been under pressure from the European Commission, which in January promised to get tough on air quality and threatened to penalize members that breached EU rules on pollutants such as nitrogen oxide and particulate matter.

In the letter, it is proposed which will low emission zones, free public transport to reduce car use, extra incentives for electric cars and technical retrofitting for existing vehicles as long as this is effective and economically feasible.

They said they would test these measures out in five cities - Bonn, Essen, Herrenberg, Reutlingen and Mannheim - before rolling out the most successful measures to all other cities affected.

There had been plans for lowering ticket prices in some cities and also the federal government would have to finance public transport if it wanted to make it free.