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Geneva commuters fall out of love with cars

cde.news desk 18 October 2019, 09:05 · 1 min read

epa03139381 Traffic jam on the streets around the Plaexpo exhibition ground during the during the the first public week end at the 82nd Geneva International Motor Show, in Geneva, Switzerland, 10 March 2012. The Motor Show opens its gates to the public from 08 to 18 March 2012 to presents more than 260 international exhibitors and more than 180 world and European premieres. EPA/SALVATORE DI NOLFI

Commuters in the Geneva region are becoming increasingly disillusioned with private cars and are embracing “multimodal” forms of transport, a survey has found.

An in-depth survey of commuter behaviour in the Greater Geneva region – covering canton Geneva, the Nyon region in neighbouring canton Vaud, and France – has revealed an increasingly negative attitude towards driving.

In 1994, 12% of respondents described private cars as “polluting” and “expensive”; in 2018, the percentage stood at 33%, the survey by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) found.

Meanwhile, attitudes towards public transport appear to be slowly improving. Half of the people questioned in the 2018 survey were positive about local public transport, compared with 39% in 1994.

The survey by researchers at the Urban Sociology Laboratory (LASUR) said commuters had “embraced multimodal transport with open arms”.

Via SwissInfo

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