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It wouldn't even cost 11% of the total to make public transit free because you can save money by not having to collect payment at all. No gates or ticket machi
by CydeWeys 7y ago
It wouldn't even cost 11% of the total to make public transit free because you can save money by not having to collect payment at all. No gates or ticket machines to maintain, buses go faster because no one is waiting in queues to pay at the door, etc.
Now admittedly more people would start using it if it were free, but that's a feature not a bug. And the marginal cost of higher ridership is much lower than the sunk capital costs of constructing the system in the first place.
- eMSF 7y ago>buses go faster because no one is waiting in queues to pay at the door Well, you could always not accept payment at the door. But more passengers doesn't equal faster buses; after a point the service will bog down as the buses bunch up, and increasing the number of buses will not solve that. A small base fare goes a long way to persuade people to walk short distances instead of catching the bus.