December the 5th, 2018 – Advent in Zagreb is well and truly bringing the Croatian capital into the joyous atmosphere of the festive season, and the three time winner of the best advent destination in Europe is offering what it usually does at this time of year, once again – free public transport use at weekends.
As studentski.hr writes, the City of Zagreb has provided Zagreb’s residents and tourists alike with the free use of the city’s public transport every weekend for the duration of Advent in Zagreb, which will last until January the 6th, 2019.
Zagreb’s long standing mayor Milan Bandić confirmed for a previous HRT radio show that the capital’s trams and buses operating in zone 1 will not charge for their services on weekends during the period of the current advent festivities in the Croatian capital. The move comes as no surprise and has been the norm during advent.
Nevertheless, a small change is that one of Zagreb’s most popular attractions, the Zagreb funicular (Uspinjača), which will be transporting passengers to midnight, has to be paid for as normal for the entire duration of Advent in Zagreb, which has otherwise not been the case over the past few years.
To be more specific, Zagreb’s public transport will be free during the period from Friday at 12:00 (midday) to Sunday at midnight. It should be noted that during this period, traffic will be prohibited in certain otherwise busy areas, those areas are Nikola Šubić Zrinski Square (Zrinjevac), Strossmayer Square, and King Tomislav Square, where only public transport vehicles may be used during the aforementioned periods.
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Click here for the original article by Anton Smrekar for studentski.hr
