After Lithuania and Portugal, Slovenia is the most car-dependent state among the 27 EU members. Cars are by far the most common mode of transport here, because public transport is considered unreliable and slow due to decades of neglect of the railway system. This means that Slovenians without a car are severely restricted in their mobility — a phenomenon referred to as “mobility poverty”, which mainly affects the poorest and people in Slovenia’s rural areas. Our guest journalist (gerne eine andere Bezeichnung, die für euch passend ist) Clara Nack talked to mobility expert Marjeta Benčina (from the NGO Focus) about how people move around in Slovenia and why they sometimes don’t.