After the high expectations of the Second Scheme for Traffic and Transport (SVV II) some considerations are presented. A commercial approach must save the public transport, but there is a discrepantion between earning money and offering public transport services and other functions which the central government imputs to public transport, such as offering an alternative for the use of the car in congested corridors. Within urban areas and regions it will be clear that the functions, for which the governement is interested, are not attractive from the commercial point of view. This is the more regrettable if the government has to pay for the investments in the infrastructure for the public transport. The government has to interfere more with public transport than they want.
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