The Swiss government plans to make drivers ditch their cars and take public transport, doubling the market share of trains and buses by 2050, according to the NZZ am SonntagExternal link.
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الحكومة السويسرية تريد مضاعفة استخدام وسائل النقل العام بحلول عام 2050
This would mean that the Swiss would cover over 40% of all passenger kilometres by train or bus, compared with 21% today. The same doubling target applies to freight transport, said the paper, which based its report on new documents from the Federal Office of Transport.
The driving force behind these efforts is the government’s climate target. It wants Switzerland to stop emitting greenhouse gases by 2050.
However, even the government’s experts admit that this target is “very ambitious”, the NZZ am Sonntag wrote. “A look back shows why: despite all the expansion, the share of public transport has been stagnating for years, and the Swiss still make almost 80% of their journeys by private car or motorbike.”
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