Comment 108390

By Capitalist (anonymous) | Posted January 26, 2015 at 11:03:45

Sean,

First, nothing is ever free. If you want to reduce transit fares to zero taxes and user fees will have to go up to pay for it (or we have to cut other services or some combination of the two).

Second, even if transit were free there probably wouldn't be much of an increase in ridership as you would expect. People don't ride transit because of time and convenience. If you have a full-time job, kids etc (basically a life) you cannot afford to spend two hours waiting for and riding the bus each day to go about your daily lives. The savings and convenience of using a car far outweighs its cost (or people wouldn't buy them now would they?).

You guys need to stop living in a fairy tale world.

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