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Copenhagen’s S-tog trains to be free for the day on 90th anniversary

The S-tog, the metropolitan railway that connects central Copenhagen and its outlying regions, will be completely free on Saturday April 6th to mark 90 years since it opened.

Published: 25 March 2024 16:31 CET
Updated: 3 April 2024 09:25 CEST
Copenhagen’s S-tog trains to be free for the day on 90th anniversary
The S-tog will be free all day throughout Copenhagen on April 6th. Photo: Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix

Copenhagen’s distinctive red S-tog (suburban or S-trains) have been shuttling passengers in and out of the Danish capital for 90 years on April 6th.

The day will be marked with free travel for all passengers on the anniversary, which is a Saturday, national rail operator DSB says on its website.

Rail journeys won’t be the only giveaway on the day, with 10,000 free hindbærsnitte (raspberry slice) to be handed out to passengers at station 7-Eleven stores.

The Jernbaneorkester, the orchestra for railway workers, will play a concert at Copenhagen Central Station at 3pm.

Free travel will run all day: from midnight to 11:59pm, DSB says.

The first ever S-train ran between Frederiksberg Station and Klampenborg Station in Copenhagen’s northern suburbs in 1934.

Today’s S-train network consists of seven lines covering 85 stations, carrying around 350,000 passengers daily.

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Danish town offers free buses in plan to boost public transport

The town of Herning in Central Jutland is to offer all residents free transfer on specified buses within the municipality from October 1st, in a move aimed at getting more passengers on board local transport.

Published: 16 September 2024 12:13 CEST
Danish town offers free buses in plan to boost public transport

Several bus routes in the town and municipality of Herning will be entirely free to residents in a pilot project launching on October 1st, the Midttrafik regional transport operator said in a press release.

The buses – routes 140, 150, 160, 168 and 169 – are a mix of yellow city buses and blue regional buses. 

The pilot project will be in place for an initial six months, expiring at the end of March 2025.

In addition to the offer of free buses, young people aged 16-26 will be able to purchase a cheap travel card, the HerningUNG card, providing cheap travel on all city and regional buses within Herning Municipality.

The travel card will come at a cost of 210 kroner and allow unlimited journeys on both city and regional buses in Herning. Blue bus journeys that leave the municipality will require the card holder to buy an additional ticket for the section which is not within Herning Municipality.

Cheap youth travel and free buses form part of Herning Municipality’s climate strategy, which involves encouraging more people to choose public transport.

“We want to motivate more people to use the public transport services we already have in the municipality,” official with Herning’s city council, John Thomsen said in the press releases.

The director of Midttrafik, Lars Berg, said the regional transport operator was interested to see whether the pilot project would be successful in incentivising bus travel.

“Midttrafik naturally supports Herning Municipality’s efforts to get more customers to take the bus,” he said.

“We are particularly interested in how many young people get the cheap commuter card. Many youth education programmes are struggling with congestion from cars and overcrowded car parks. In addition we have the climate problem. This is therefore a win-win in several ways if we can get young people to take the bus instead of a car,” he added.

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