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Re: Critique of free Muni

Author: That Bus Guy

Date: 05-01-2021 - 17:07

Shamwow Democrat Wrote:
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> It's "free give-away" time in the USA!
>
> Free residency to Central Americans and Mexicans
> who cross the border.
>
> Free college to whiny 20-somethings.
>
> Free school for all your anchor babies.
>
> Free right to vote.
>
> Free debt forgiveness to whiny 20-somethings with
> student loans.
>
> Free homes for the homeless.
>
> Free transit.
>
> All paid for by 40 and 50 somethings who owe
> society reparations.
>
> At election time, remember who gave you the free
> sh*t and vote accordingly.

A major operational benefit of not having to collect fares is that the amount of time that bus and rail transit vehicles are stopped is greatly reduced. This would save travelers huge amounts of time, particularly systems serving lots of tourists (who are unfamiliar with fare policies) like the F line in San Francisco.

There is also a substantial cost to transit agencies to collect currency from fareboxes

On the other hand, a $200 million loss in funding is substantial. I never read about those who advocate for fareless transit having realistic solutions for covering such large shortfalls in revenue

As for you Shamwow, too bad you lack the ability, interest and sobriety to focus on that and just post a bunch of ideological garbage.

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Subject	Written By	Date/Time (PST)
Critique of free Muni	MMM	05-01-2021 - 11:32
op-ed-free-muni-would-cost-riders	BARF	05-01-2021 - 13:05
BARF	Norman	05-01-2021 - 16:23
BARF	BUCKET	05-01-2021 - 17:09
Re: BARF	Norman	05-01-2021 - 19:35
Re: op-ed-free-muni-would-cost-riders	Settle Down Francis	05-02-2021 - 09:25
Re: Critique of free Muni	Shamwow Democrat	05-01-2021 - 13:44
Re: Critique of free Muni	That Bus Guy	05-01-2021 - 17:07
Free transit and city population size and of course "money"	That Streetcar Guy	05-01-2021 - 18:11
Re: Critique of free Muni	Dr Zarkoff	05-03-2021 - 13:17
Re: Critique of free Muni	Shamwow Democrat	05-01-2021 - 13:48
Re: Critique of free Muni	Real Democrat	05-02-2021 - 09:31
Re: Critique of free Muni	the troll of many names	05-01-2021 - 22:24
Re: Critique of free Muni	One name, actually	05-02-2021 - 07:58

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That Bus Guy Wrote:
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> Shamwow Democrat Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > It's "free give-away" time in the USA!
> > 
> > Free residency to Central Americans and
> Mexicans
> > who cross the border.
> > 
> > Free college to whiny 20-somethings.
> > 
> > Free school for all your anchor babies.
> > 
> > Free right to vote.
> > 
> > Free debt forgiveness to whiny 20-somethings
> with
> > student loans.
> > 
> > Free homes for the homeless.
> > 
> > Free transit.
> > 
> > All paid for by 40 and 50 somethings who owe
> > society reparations.  
> > 
> > At election time, remember who gave you the
> free
> > sh*t and vote accordingly.
> 
> A major operational benefit of not having to
> collect fares is that the amount of time that bus
> and rail transit vehicles are stopped is greatly
> reduced.  This would save travelers huge amounts
> of time, particularly systems serving lots of
> tourists (who are unfamiliar with fare policies)
> like the F line in San Francisco.
> 
> There is also a substantial cost to transit
> agencies to collect currency from fareboxes
> 
> On the other hand, a $200 million loss in funding
> is substantial.  I never read about those who
> advocate for fareless transit having realistic
> solutions for covering such large shortfalls in
> revenue
> 
> As for you Shamwow, too bad you lack the ability,
> interest and sobriety to focus on that and just
> post a bunch of ideological garbage.

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