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Originally Posted by GirlySports
It's not that crazy. More and more cities are considering free transit. Like Kansas City.
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KS like many American transit agencies barely collect any fares to begin with, even before COVID. Better to justify their existence and highly-paid executives with half loaded buses and trains with 0 fares then empty buses and trains.
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New York City has done a study that free buses (not subway) alone would cost 1 billion a year.
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In 2019, fares represented $1.2B in revenues for TTC.
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/...ile-129535.pdf
The argument in Canada, where the average transit agency is much better run, is if you had the money to offset all fares whether it would be better to use that money to improve routes and frequencies?