Sweden: half-price public transport

Sydsvenskan is not impressed:

“It is, of course, a good thing to promote public transport. But halving the price of monthly travel passes because of the Hormuz crisis is simply stupid. These travel costs are not affected by the unrest in the Middle East, and the move will primarily benefit those who are managing just fine without it. If the government carried out any research at all on this, it was about something other than how to support low-income households during difficult times.”