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Euroviews. Want to fight climate change? Start with challenging your mayor and your neighbours to act ǀ View

how can we as citizens promote the necessary change to stop our contribution to a visible problem so poorly combated by global geopolitics that inertia will impede reaching a pre-industrial age climate anytime soon? The answer might be closer to hand than you expected.

Green News

Rome is offering credit on public transport in return for plastic

Return plastic bottles for recycling at designated points around the city.

Eco-Innovation

Could electric scooter sharing help large cities become less polluted?

We find out why an investment in communal e-scooters could lead to cleaner air in urban spaces.

France

Fears of football violence spark temporary e-scooter removal in Lyon

Authorities issued a 24-hour ban in large swathes of Lyon and parts of Paris to prevent a repeat of the violence observed after the African Cup of Nations semi-final last Sunday.

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United Kingdom

Life sentence for man who pushed passenger, 90, onto London tube track

London tube 'pusher' who shoved ex-Eurotunnel chief onto track gets life sentence

Eco-Innovation

Four European cities leading the way in eco-friendly transport

Find out which European cities are introducing eco-friendly initiatives to transform transport in urban spaces.

Qatar

Watch: Qatar unveils metro ahead of 2022 FIFA World Cup

The network will be completed by 2020 and will cover 70 kilometres with 37 stations.

Eco-Innovation

Trending: What is micro-mobility?

Discovering one of the fastest growing branches of transport.

Portugal

Lisbon commuters struggle as austerity strain tells on public transpor

Years of belt-tightening have put pressure on infrastructure.

Luxembourg

Luxembourg to be first country to introduce free public transport

Luxembourg is to become the first country in the world to scrap fares on all public transport.

France

Mother gives birth to baby boy on Paris metro

A baby was born in the Paris metro on Wednesday evening, transport authorities in the French capital have confirmed.

World News

IMMERSIVE STORY: Moscow's Metro aka the 'subterranean palace' in 360

IMMERSIVE STORY: Moscow's Metro aka the 'subterranean palace' in 360

World News

A drink-drive test for Lime's e-scooters?

Scooter company wants to use tech to make its riders (and its property) safer.

Indonesia

No money for your bus ride? Pay with plastic instead

In Indonesia, city buses accept plastic bottles as payment for a ticket.

France

Is Lyon's public transport operator implementing a 'kindness tax'?

'Solidarity is not a crime,' argued protesters in Lyon who said the city's public transport network is imposing a €150 fine on people who give their tickets to other passengers

Spain

Banned from pavements, Madrid's scooters face wrath of drivers

Spanish capital clamps down on electric scooters but with hundreds more planned for the city conflicts with drivers are inevitable

France

200,000 rally around French bus driver who slapped teen boy

His colleagues say the teenager insulted the driver after dangerously crossing the street in front of the bus.

Business

Toyota invests €427 million in Uber

Japanese carmaker Toyota will invest a whopping 427 million euros (500 million dollars) in Uber as they join forces to develop self-driving cars.

Business

Uber chooses bikes over cars

Uber's CEO says the company will focus more on bikes and scooters rather than cars as city-dwellers will make more frequent and short journeys in the future

France

Paris says 'au revoir' to metro ticket, ushers in contactless payment

Paris has been using several variances of the little rectangular slip of paper as a ticket since its metro system was introduced in 1900, when the city was hosting the World Expo.