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News Wire: Germany mulls free transit to fight pollution
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<p>I think it is a last, desperate attempt to avoid legal action by the EU. Loosing this law suit, which is likely, would cost Germany penalties of 400,000 EUR/day until the EU NOx limits are met.</p> <p>And it is an attempt to avoid banning all but the newest diesel automobiles (Euro 6d) from the concerned cities. There are not too many Euro 6d diesels available.</p> <p>Most of the transit systems are already at their limit. All would need to expand their system and fleets first to handle the expexted higher ridership. A town in the eastern Germany tried it years ago. The ridership went from 330,000 to 4,400,000. The experiment was cancelled after a few years because of costs.</p> <p>It sounds great but I doubt that it will work.<br />Regards, Volker (Essen, Germany)</p>
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