{"id":245,"date":"2018-07-03T09:09:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T06:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2018-06-30T23:50:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T20:50:58","slug":"dr-daniel-b-hess-shares-expert-opinion-on-fare-free-public-transport-in-tallinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Daniel B. Hess shares expert opinion on Fare-Free Public Transport in Tallinn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An article in U.S. News & World Report<\/b> about plans by government officials in Estonia to roll out free public transportation nationwide, which, if successful, would make the Baltic state the first country to implement such a system, interviews Daniel B. Hess<\/strong>, professor of urban and regional planning in the UB School of Architecture and Planning. \u201cAs we continue to urbanize and have denser places that need many people reaching them, there will be an increasing need for public transit to serve these places with high-capacity transit vehicles, such as buses, streetcars or subways,” he said. “Any growing city where there’s a premium on land value and the traffic is choking, and where it\u2019s very expensive to travel by car and park, seems a possibility for free public transport.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full article in U.S. News & World Report.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article in U.S. News & World Report about plans by government officials in Estonia to roll out free public transportation nationwide, which, if successful, would make the Baltic state the first country to implement such a system, interviews Daniel B. Hess, professor of urban and regional planning in the UB School of Architecture and … Continue reading Dr. Daniel B. 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