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Dutch residents will have to ditch their cars for sustainable transport system (nltimes.nl)
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To build a fully climate-neutral transport system in the Netherlands, many citizens will have to give up their cars, Jan Willem Eirsman, the government’s new chief climate adviser as chairman of the Scientific Climate Council, told the AD.

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[-] blue_zephyr@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dutchman here. Our government has been systematically gutting funding for public transport. I have to extend my commute from 40 minutes to 2 hours if I want to take public transport. It's also unreliable and outrageously expensive since they run it through the "free market".

Fuck cars but there's also no way in hell I will sell my car before they introduce some massive changes to our public transport.

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Our government has been systematically gutting funding for public transport.

silent privatization

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The one thing the EU is fucking up, forcing the free market where we don't want it

[-] tim1996@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Its only doing that because it has been told to. We should tell it to stop.

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