Charging based on distance would be a huge fuck you to the city’s most cash strapped. I think the single fare is one of the city’s most egalitarian features an

Charging based on distance would be a huge fuck you to the city’s most cash strapped. I think the single fare is one of the city’s most egalitarian features and I hope it stays that way. In this age of inequality further burdening those with the least is the last thing we should be doing. I’d much prefer a tax on residences which stay vacant for more than six months a year, and a tax on empty store fronts encouraging store front rents to drop enough to let back in some more Mom and Pop stops to shop instead of yet another bank, Walgreens, or Subway.