The Austrian city of Graz is asking residents to stop using their mobile
phones on public transport.
Mayor Siegfried Nagl has begun a campaign asking people not to disturb
passengers with calls while travelling.
There will be no enforcement by the police, but stickers will be posted up
reading: 'Please don't use your mobile phone'.
"We have asked people in a polite way to turn off their ring-tone and just
use text messaging," Thomas Rajakovics, a spokesman for the mayor, told the
International Herald Tribune.
"People have begun to use the phone in a much more polite way. If they do
take a call, they tell the caller in a very low voice that they are on a tram
and cannot talk and will call back."
A similar scheme, with enforcement, was tried in Stockholm last year, but had
to be withdrawn after public protests. It looks as though Graz will face similar
problems.
Gerald Grosz, from the far-right Alliance for the Future of Austria, told the
BBC that he makes a point of using his mobile on public transport.
"We have other problems in Graz on the public transport system with crime
rates, but not with mobile phones or their ring-tones," he said.
"We will fight this ban and take the majority in the city council with other
parties and send this ban into history."
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