48% Of NYC Bus Riders Don't Pay Fares

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• NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Publically fund it, and make it “free”?

  I know not a popular opinion and the argument is always the same. If I dont use it why do I pay for it? But…

  Public libraries are “free” and publicly funded. Public schools are “free” and publicly funded. Public streets are “free” and publicly funded. Public plumbing. Not everyone uses all these things, but we all fund them.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are not free. They are just baked into our taxes. I hate toll bridges. They just seem to break the flow of traffic. I’d rather pay a little more in taxes to get rid of toll roads and bridges

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    • Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Toll roads are meant to control traffic congestion. Florida has many of them because tourist flood the state driving on their highways. This generates revenues from tourist while controlling traffic at the same time. NYC tried to do that.

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  • Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is free. Just don’t pay.

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• shamrockpreacher5@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because reactionaries hate poor people and public transit.

    Two birds with one stone for them.

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  • Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because it is a democrat society and what it looks like in the wild.

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• Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly, just make it free. Probably costs more to enforce tickets than it gets revenue.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve always pondered that. It may make more sense to make more public transpiration free. All the equipment, employees etc required to collect fares seems like a waste.

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