"Uber but free" is about as sensible a goal as planting quarters and hoping they grow into trees of hundreds
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The only truly FREE way to get around is by walking! If you want to help the poor--if you want people of any class to be able to spend less getting around--then walking must be the default, the foundation on which the superstructure of vehicular transport is built!
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Is American public transit substantially cheaper for users than in Western Europe?
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Western Europe isn't the model I have in mind here, it's Japan--the fare structures there are almost always based on distance traveled, so usually ends up costing more for the sorts of distances typical in USA
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Also because there is no expectation that fares should cover operations, there is much more pressure here to provide transit in places where it can't possibly operate effectively
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Japan National Railways faced this problem before privatization: because the entire country supported it through taxes, the entire country felt entitled to rail access, no matter how impractical. The result was a pileup of loss-making lines and enormous debt...
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...after privatization, those loss-making lines met one of three fates: - incorporation into a JNR successor company and cross-funded by profitable routes w/in that company - partial ownership given to local governments, so local taxpayers supported instead of national - closure
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get out of here you capitalist
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