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areYouMenthol t1_j09dw62 wrote

The top issue with buses is not the $2.75 fare. Top surveyed issues relate to:

  • quality of life/safety
  • access: number of lines/frequency

Making the buses free is political theater that's easy to attribute to the politicians who pushed for it, while the fixes we need are not going to be so visually obvious. This is an awful idea that will literally contribute to worsening the issues people want addressed.

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Grass8989 t1_j09o9md wrote

Yup, and guess what services are first to be cut when there’s budget cuts. It’s not the one that charges a fare.

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bluethroughsunshine t1_j0cve0a wrote

It's really just a means of increasing taxes so that MTA has a steady stream of income. That's it. Money is money and it all stems from us paying it on the back end like we do where daida are skipped or on the front end with taxes so that they maintain their revenue stream.

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mowotlarx t1_j09ol46 wrote

If allowing more people to use public transit will make public transit worse, we're doing it wrong. The point is for people to use it to get from point A to point B. We don't need to self sort the classes to the front and back of the bus to keep it "civilized."

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