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In Estonia’s capital of Tallinn, the historical origins are particularly plain to see as buses still travel long, straight roads drawn up in Soviet times when the city was divided into set districts.
When I visit in September, the city is a chockful of roadworks - including for a new tramline that will run between the harbour, the station for Rail Baltica - a major new high speed railway for Eastern Europe - and the airport.
All these changes require careful consideration of the data (most buses and trams have detectors to count demand at different stops) and “a very intense dialogue between the city and local communities,” says Svet.
“Because car ownership was limited [until Estonia regained independence in 1991], it became seen as a status symbol, so we are fighting this notion a bit,” says Kaidi Põldoja, head of Tallinn’s urban planning department.
The main issue is with other road users; “rude drivers,‘’ as Sepp describes them, “people who don’t know how to deal with autonomous vehicles” - or who aren’t programmed to be such sticklers for the rules.
With the French city of Montpellier set to make public transport free in December, officials paid a visit to meet with Tallinn experts earlier this year, to see the system in practice.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In Estonia’s capital of Tallinn, the historical origins are particularly plain to see as buses still travel long, straight roads drawn up in Soviet times when the city was divided into set districts.
When I visit in September, the city is a chockful of roadworks - including for a new tramline that will run between the harbour, the station for Rail Baltica - a major new high speed railway for Eastern Europe - and the airport.
All these changes require careful consideration of the data (most buses and trams have detectors to count demand at different stops) and “a very intense dialogue between the city and local communities,” says Svet.
“Because car ownership was limited [until Estonia regained independence in 1991], it became seen as a status symbol, so we are fighting this notion a bit,” says Kaidi Põldoja, head of Tallinn’s urban planning department.
The main issue is with other road users; “rude drivers,‘’ as Sepp describes them, “people who don’t know how to deal with autonomous vehicles” - or who aren’t programmed to be such sticklers for the rules.
With the French city of Montpellier set to make public transport free in December, officials paid a visit to meet with Tallinn experts earlier this year, to see the system in practice.
The original article contains 1,391 words, the summary contains 213 words. Saved 85%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!