I'm in Albuquerque, NM. They did a test last year of Free Buses. Then made it permanent this year.
I've never used the bus, because the city is very much built for driving. But I do like that that the bus is free. Just wish I didn't have to walk a mile, and up a big hill to get to my closest stop.
rising gas prices
Most of my local public transport is electrically-powered now, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
who buys tickets with cash anymore lol
I did recently when I lost my travel card. Some people also travel using cash habitually for privacy reasons (What if someone has an abusive partner watching bank card transactions and transport card accounts? What if there's a data breach? I recall a few years ago one train network voluntarily gave aggregated trip data to a student researcher which could pretty easily be deanonymized.)
Maybe it's different where you live, but cash certainly lives here.
Most public transportation systems are funded by subsidizes. Fares only make 1/10th of most revenue.
That's why they aren't private transportation systems 😉
Just google maps a trip, and notate the time difference in driving by car and getting there by bus. If you make more than $10/hr, you've already made that back by getting there that much sooner. and you didn't have to deal with the guy masturbating in the corner, or the creeper trying to look up your skirt.
Who is paying you $10/h to stay home for an extra 15m before work? Or does your job pay you extra for showing up before you're scheduled?
Comparing travel time to your hourly rate is a nonsense argument because you cannot practically monitize that time.
Alternatively, you could look up the travel time by car, and realize that is all wasted time. You can bring a laptop and work on a train. That is not possible when driving.
If you drive an hour a day that's costing you $10 of lost productivity, plus the $5 or so of gas, and the insurance, depreciation, and wear on your vehicle, all in all, it costs significantly more than the transit ticket.
You must be a prime, USAmerican specimen to expulse such rambling against public transport.
Buses move more people per square foot. They are exponentially more efficient. So having greater adoption across the board is a net gain, even for car drivers.
I'm making way more than $10/hr but here's the thing: I'm only paid 35 hours a week.
I could spend the rest of it furiously masturbating in a bus and not lose a single cent.
Besides, it's easier to jerk off in a bus than while driving a car.
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