What one cares about is defined by what one does, not what one says.
"Everywhere America goes it spreads war, misery, and destruction."
The Han...every day....all around the world.
Jack (09-18-2021)
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/02/free...heres-why.htmlPilot program adds 60,000 riders in one month
Olympia, Wash., embraced free bus service this year, which previously cost $1.25 for a typical adult ride and $3 for an express bus from Lakewood to Tacoma.
The “Zero-Fare Demonstration Project,” which involved two-and-a-half years of strategic planning, went into effect on Jan. 1 this year and will last for the next five, at which point the city will re-evaluate the project’s impact.
Clark Gilman, Olympia City Council member and local transit authority board member, says the slogan of the campaign was to be “bold and unafraid.” After a ballot measure was passed to approve an additional sales tax for public transportation purposes, going fare-free was actually the most cost-effective option for Olympia for several reasons.
First, the cash boxes that collected fares on Olympia city buses were no longer being produced, he says. This forced city procurement specialists to use eBay to bid on old cash boxes from surplus and decommissioned buses from other cities.
Additionally, the cost of the plastic fare cards already in use was rising, due to trade tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.
What is not said is that this was paid for by doubling the transit sales tax, which was sold as a way to add service then almost immediately after the citizens foolishly approved it Intercity Transit instead plowed the majority of the new money into eliminating fares, which we get told in this article was the plan all along. We were lied to.
My lack of trust in my local transit agencies runs deep, and is part of my willingness to be a part of a citizens revolt.
"Everywhere America goes it spreads war, misery, and destruction."
The Han...every day....all around the world.
Transit with no fares has been tried many times over the years, and there is again a huge push to do it. The problem always is that the bums ride around all day causing problems, which not only does not help society, it harms it, because people avoid using transit because it is dangerous. Over the years almost everyone who ever tries it changes their minds.
"Everywhere America goes it spreads war, misery, and destruction."
The Han...every day....all around the world.
Doc Dutch (09-18-2021)
Doc Dutch (09-18-2021)
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
ThatOwlWoman (09-18-2021)
Not in Phoenix it isn't. The light fail system here has cost so much to build and has such low ridership that it'd be cheaper to just give every daily rider a new Prius every four or five years...
Building freeways per mile is much cheaper than light fail too...
Freeways cost 2.7 to 62.4 million a mile, while light fail costs 15 to 100 million per mile.
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