The Swedish Government wants to lower the age to 18 for obtaining a license to drive a bus or taxi. The idea is to attract younger people into the profession.
The current minimum is 21 years. “We want to develop and upgrade training in this profession,” explained Infrastructure Minister Åsa Torstensson.
This kind of training would take place in the nation’s upper secondary schools (gymnasium) or as part and parcel of related education.
She said the proposed change would entail one restriction. Those between the ages of 18 to 20 years would not be permitted to drive buses on routes stretching more than 50 kilometres.
Lines M3 and M4 of the Copenhagen Metro are back in service having reopened on Sunday, one day ahead of schedule.
The two lines had been closed so that the Metro can run test operations before opening five new stations on the M4 line this summer.
The tests, which began on February 10th, are now done and the lines were running again as of Sunday evening, a day ahead of the original planned reopening on Monday February 26th.
“We are very pleased to be able to welcome our passengers on to our two lines M3 and M4,” head of operations with the Metro Søren Boysen said.
“The whole test procedure exceeded all expectations and went faster than expected and we can therefore get a head start on our reopening now,” he said.
Time set aside for potential repeat tests was not needed in the event, allowing the test closures to be completed ahead of time.
“Several of our many tests went better than expected and we have therefore not used all the time we needed for extra tests,” Boysen said.
The two lines serve around one million passengers every week, according to the Metro company.
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The new stops on the M4 line will be located south of central Copenhagen in the Valby and Sydhavn areas. The will have the names Haveholmen, Enghave Brygge, Sluseholmen, Mozarts Plads and København Syd (Copenhagen South).
The M3 and M4 lines, the newer sections of the Metro, opened in 2019 and 2020 respectively.
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