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Where I live there's only one company responsible for public transport for the whole country/state/province and they have increased fares for busses by 7% and are now increasing train fares for most adults too (not the elderly though) just only young people and people below retirement age being affected and there's no support for decreased fares for people in poverty or jobless or disabled. Prices had been frozen for about a year or two because of "cost of living" yet money is going less further this year because wages haven't kept up and goods are still expensive so the least well off is going to be hit harder by the increase to public transport.
The same where I live applies to electricity and water. The governments of the past sold them off to the public to raise revenue for election promises and ever since the prices of their services have skyrocketed.
Electricity in particular is a complete scam as they set up a market of private resellers that provide the illusion of competition but they're all around the same price as they all buy their electricity from the same single wholesaler.
We even let companies extract our gas and then sell it back to us at international market rates. My country is dumb.