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Zalgisbeck has a notably high water-table for a city of its size. This has made the construction of a subway network prohibitively expensive, despite repeated attempts to do so since the 1890s. Public transport therefore largely consists of tram, light rail and bus networks, as well as national rail links. Zalgisbeck has been called the most "car-hostile" city in Hendalarsk because of its long-term planning around public transport and pedestrians rather than private vehicles; although the city is encircled by a ring-road, there are no motorways within the city proper, and use of the city's roads by individual private vehicles is extremely heavily restricted. Regulations for commercial vehicles such as delivery trucks are considerably more lenient, but stringent emissions regulations introduced after the [[Great Fog of 1951]] mean that almost all vehicles in Zalgisbeck, public or private, run on electric power rather than internal combustion. The city's ferries across the Zalgis still run on diesel engines, but are planned to be replaced with models that use hydrogen fuel cells by the early 2030s. | Zalgisbeck has a notably high water-table for a city of its size. This has made the construction of a subway network prohibitively expensive, despite repeated attempts to do so since the 1890s. Public transport therefore largely consists of tram, light rail and bus networks, as well as national rail links. Zalgisbeck has been called the most "car-hostile" city in Hendalarsk because of its long-term planning around public transport and pedestrians rather than private vehicles; although the city is encircled by a ring-road, there are no motorways within the city proper, and use of the city's roads by individual private vehicles is extremely heavily restricted. Regulations for commercial vehicles such as delivery trucks are considerably more lenient, but stringent emissions regulations introduced after the [[Great Fog of 1951]] mean that almost all vehicles in Zalgisbeck, public or private, run on electric power rather than internal combustion. The city's ferries across the Zalgis still run on diesel engines, but are planned to be replaced with models that use hydrogen fuel cells by the early 2030s. | ||
Public transport in Zalgisbeck is managed and operated by ZÖVV ('''''Z'''algisbecker '''Ö'''ffentlicher '''V'''erkehrs'''v'''erband'', "Zalgisbecker Public Transport Consortium"), itself owned by the [[Hendalarskara Transport Commissariat]] but politically accountable to the Zalgisbecker Transport Directorate (ZVL, '''''Z'''algisbeckere '''V'''erkehrs'''l'''eiterei''). As it is a publicly-owned company, the bulk of any profits accruing from ZÖVV's operations are typically retained and reinvested in the network's own services, infrastructure and rolling stock, with the exception of 20% transferred as dividends to the [[Zalgisbund]]. The head of the ZÖVV, the ''Verkehrsleiter'', is nominated by the ZVL and confirmed (or, rarely, rejected) by the Zalgisbund. | |||
ZÖVV operates fourteen tramlines which together constitute the [[Zalgisbeck S-Bán]], as well as four commuter rail lines offering direct connections between outlying towns in the city centre and over 150 bus routes. In 2033 ZÖVV estimated that its services facilitated approximately 1.503 billion journeys, making it one of the most-used public transport networks (adjusted for population size) of any major city worldwide. | |||
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