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So in a nutshell, your argument is that if the public transportation were free, nobody would use it because it's too crowded?
by mullingitover 13y ago
So in a nutshell, your argument is that if the public transportation were free, nobody would use it because it's too crowded?
- danielweber 13y agoIt takes very very few derelicts to make the bus system too crowded to use.
- Shivetya 13y agowhen it becomes free how do you keep people from living on it?
- ben0x539 13y agoGive them a better option?
- abraininavat 13y agoCrazy talk. Clearly they have housing and jobs, they just like living on the bus!
- paulhauggis 13y agoI feel like you would like this, to punish society for not "giving them a better option".
- scarmig 13y agoWhatever the merits of the argument, that's obviously not it. A bus full of people commuting to jobs is getting more use than a bus a quarter full of rank homeless men with lice dropping off of them and otherwise empty because no one wants to be near them. I would argue, though, that a bigger problem is that prices don't wholly fix even that problem. Evidence: a casual ride on the non-free San Francisco area BART, which is full of homeless people who ride it all non-peak hours because it's more comfortable than sitting on the sidewalk. When I've been in Asian or European cities, that's simply not an issue.