You seem to be avoiding the point that to get a discount you must travel into the city by car more than ten times a month and those first ten times are full pri

You seem to be avoiding the point that to get a discount you must travel into the city by car more than ten times a month and those first ten times are full price. And then you must pay 50% of the price after that. Then, in April, you may get some tax relief. This is a good system and trivial in your mind? Because the average low income or fixed income person can just float that money for a year and then maybe get some of it back? And you can't even do it if you've moved recently. If all of your documents don't have the exact same address you are out of luck. If you've moved since you filed your taxes and your address on your car registration is your old address you're out of luck until you file your next taxes and update your registration. And then you have to mail it all in and just wait until you get a response. And if it's denied you get to start the process again. And then next year you get to do it again. This isn't "trivial". Trivial is submitting your social security number, VIN, drivers license, and address.