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Data shows 224,000 new EVs were registered in March, with Norway leading way in terms of switching
Data shows 224,000 new EVs were registered in March, with Norway leading way in terms of switching
I can’t speak for other EU member states but Austria has been investing a lot in public transport, for a while already.
Speaking for others, my city opened a tram line in 2021 and has been constantly expanding it since. More buses have become electric, and some electric bendy buses are coming too.
Woohoo! One of the great secrets for public transit is to keep building. If you stop, you lose the people and skills to do a good job building. When a city just keeps going, it builds internal skills and knowledge on running the projects so they get cheaper, faster, and hit fewer problems.
The Wien public transit network is stellar. I don’t know much about the rest of the country, other than ÖBB is inexpensive, on time, and clean (DB needs to take notes). Oh, and Salzburg needs some transit build out. The busses won’t scale forever there.
Salzburg is probably the worst city in terms of transit and is still perfectly serciceable. It’s keadership is still pretty car focused though - and it shows. There is talk about some rail option rosskng the centre bit nothing is ever really getting built because … think about car traffic which must not loose any capacity …
Lower Austria outside of the main corridors and the Vienna metropolitan area has a rsther poor track record as well. They closed down a lot of the smaller branch lines. To be fair however at the same time bus/rail integration has improved considerably. Most villages have somewhat usable rush hour service and a lot of places have at least one bus per hour with synched train connection.