The country where all public transit is free

From March 1st 2020, Luxembourg will have free public transit throughout the country: you'll be able to travel on buses, trains, trams, and that one funicular railway without a ticket. It sounds like a good idea: but is it?

(you can find contact details and social links there too)

[TomScottGo]

This is why I was unexpectedly passing through Schengen a few weeks back!

[Cossieuk]

A free train being cancelled and being late for work is slightly better than the one that I have paid for being cancelled and me be late for work

[MajorTanya]

I'm really impressed that you got the Deputy Prime Minister / Minister for Mobility and Public Works for your video 😮

And it's a really nice video too

[viperhalberd]

There's an irony in someone named "Carr" advocating for public transport.

[francesgardner]

“Okay” in European standards is “incredible” in American. Those trains look clean and they look like they don’t smell of piss. I’m jealous

[juwulia_]

Luxembourg: The only country where people speak english with a French, German, Belgian and Dutch accent at once.

[soapiesteevee]

As a Luxembourgish person, it feels so surreal watching a video and recognizing every location shown in it. I'm just absolutely not used to it.
Honestly great work on the video, explains everything very great :)

[someone-fwlv]

That bloke from the Government is Luxemburg in one image: French accent, with german ways of speaking (individual mobility is a direct translation of Individualverkehr).

[wills]

As someone who lives in the Bay Area, hearing that this transit system is merely “okay” makes me really want to hop across the pond

[luisky]

As a civil engineer in Luxembourg, I can tell you that if a train is late is most of the time due to works that are taking place on the luxembourguish train lanes, or train stations that are being increase. Luxembourg is investing a lot on new infrastructures and at the moment is in real good progress. Only in few years we will see and feel the result of those investements

[matthewwatt]

For a second I thought I was watching in grey-scale untill I realised he's wearing a jumper and most probably wearing a red t-shirt underneath

[quackcement]

4:04 disagree i think free transit is brilliant for tourists when they can just hop on hop off without having to worry about the complexity of getting tickets. it makes a city more appealing to visit.

[JoeBleasdaleReal]

Luxembourg: Unreliable public transit for free
UK: Unreliable public transit that will cost you a kidney every time it’s cancelled at the last minute

[JakePetrolhead]

"cancelled trains, delayed buses" - sounds like Yorkshire public transport but without the sense you're being ripped off.

[drhexerei]

Transit that's "ok by European standards" = phenomenal by American standards

[younhitchborn]

When I went to Tokyo, I was blown away by their transit system. The trains were super quick and always on time. You could almost set your watch to them.

[nmat]

If ticket sales only covers 10% of the cost, getting rid of it will lose you even less. Cause you'll save money on not having to maintain a ticket system, checking passengers and so on.

[funkalunatic]

All this hand-wringing about how it's not perfect and I'm standing here like "Wow this is better than anything in my country and it's free"

[somitomi]

2:32 "lot of the rolling stock is dated" shows footage of a trainset made in the '90s. Heh, that is "fairly modern" by the standards of Hungarian railways.

[Gavolav]

To be honest though, it's very rare that busses or trains would be cancelled in Luxembourg. It's only happened to me a 5 or 6 times in my entire 18 years of living there even though I've nearly always used public transport (and regularly). Although it is true that the busses are often late, they are late nearly only during rush hour, which is absolutely a problem but not the worst problem in the world (and if I would travel via car I'd still be stuck in traffic, just for less time)