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Can you provide a link? What major cities have tried free fares? I'm also really curious to know what "less desirable" means, exactly.
by CydeWeys 7y ago
Can you provide a link? What major cities have tried free fares?
I'm also really curious to know what "less desirable" means, exactly.
- Afton 7y agoLess desirable probably means "people who are homeless and/or mentally ill, who use the free-bus ride as a heated place to hang out all day".
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- zucker42 7y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccxVYborUcU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccxVYborUcU was the video I was referencing. It was far more positive than I remember. https://ftp.fdot.gov/file/d/FTP/FDOT%20LTS/CO/research/Completed_Proj/Summary_PTO/FDOT_BC137_38_FF_rpt.pdf https://ftp.fdot.gov/file/d/FTP/FDOT%20LTS/CO/research/Compl... is the research I remember that was more critical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_public_transport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_public_transport is also good. Less desirable means people that other riders are less likely to want to ride with. From the paper above: > In the Austin, Texas fare-free demonstration, both anecdotal and official data suggest that problem riders increased substantially and drove away other riders. Joy-riding youth and inebriated adults, as well as vagrants, increased. In addition, in both the Mercer Metro and the Austin, Texas experiences, problem riders actually drove away many of the regular bus commuters. In none of the experiments did the increase in transit ridership include automobile commuters enticed by the fare-free service (Connor, 1979; Kounes, 1993; People for Modern Transit Technical Committee, 2001).