I'm not sure that making public transportation free is the right idea to make more public transportation available, since the public transportation networks use

I'm not sure that making public transportation free is the right idea to make more public transportation available, since the public transportation networks use the money from fares to function (in addition to money from the gov, any network with farebox recovery ratio [0] < 100% will need an external money source) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio Still I agree that public transportation is a common good and I'm happy to live in a country with above-average networks (both at the local and national levels).