Fascinating, he's dead wronghttps://twitter.com/AdamTuss/status/1045365799723159553 …
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Flat fares penalize short trips and encourage long ones while failing to deliver the revenue to support them. Bad idea!
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I understand why people are reluctant to say transit should make money--on the one hand, most doubt that it's even possible, and on the other, they're leery of such a basic necessity being used to get a few people rich. But this is about securing a future for transit...
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When transit loses money, someone has to be found who will foot the bill--and the continued existence of transit (and the mobility of everyone who uses it!) becomes dependent on the whims of that someone. If they decide they don't want to pay so much, too bad for the riders!
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Moreover, if transit owes its existence to funding provided by people who don't necessarily ride transit, then transit will *necessarily* be operated with those people's interests placed above the riders. These interests may align sometimes, but when they don't...
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What is the difference in cost of travel if you include the costs associated with starting and stopping more frequently as far as energy usage and wear and tear?
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those costs are included, and are, as you would expect, higher for longer trips
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Flat fares would mean that periphery destinations would see services cut first. Actually hurts those it purports to help.
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I can tell you don't have much experience of this. I take the subway three days a week. Trying to get more money out of people for longer trips is a fool's errand. It's also meaningless.
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People pay for another turncross or using a bus after the ticket's time has run out, so the city gets extra $ that way anyway. And many use the bus or subway twice every day and want the system to be as easy as possible, without someone's clever theories getting in the way.
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