"transporte colectivo" in English

On the contrary, transport services operated as public services are just as efficient as private ones.

Public Transport is a national and regional matter.

Public transport is extremely important to many people because it allows them to live a normal life.

We cannot let the market impose laws and criteria that make production the be-all and end-all.

We need, by way of continent-wide public policies, to develop public transport for travel by rail, sea and river.

We need to provide increased security and uniform passenger rights which will stimulate the use of collective transport.

' Don't tax car users and harass them out off existence but improve the quality and appeal of collective transport' .

It must be made into such an attractive alternative that more and more people will be happy to opt for public transportation.

' Do n't tax car users and harass them out off existence but improve the quality and appeal of collective transport '.

The best possible organisation of collective transport will never succeed in appeasing the human need for mobility.

Mr President, one of the objectives of the directive is to improve access to public transport for persons of reduced mobility.

This has resulted in falling standards in rail transport as a whole as well as staff reductions, which has contributed to keeping unemployment levels high.

Sometimes (or even often) it is necessary, for social economic reasons, to subsidise heavily the operating costs of public transport.

on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group. - (NL) Mr President, during this part-session, two questions came up with regard to collective passenger transport.

This means it is not collective transport we are providing for; it is a multiple-choice situation in which personal transport, in the form of a car, will win every time.

In Sweden, public transport would disappear totally from practically all remote areas if operating costs had to be met from the income from ticket sales.

Public transport must be cheap, comfortable, punctual, safe and environmentally friendly; the responsibility for this should lie with local and regional authorities.

I also appreciate the rapporteur's clear main thrust for amendments, which is to make it easier for disabled people to have access to public transport.

I must however register my strong reservations about paragraph 32, which states that the best way of promoting efficiency is to contract out local public transport to private entrepreneurs.

I referred to the directive which the Commission has proposed on compulsory arrangements for means of public transport, so that people with special needs can use them.