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In Sweden, we have a movement for free public transport. Gets rid of fees, gives everyone freedom of movement in the cities, better for environment etc. (Should be noted that in Sweden, public transport is mostly tax financed anyway.) Totally removes stigma of assistance.

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by A swedish kind of death on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 12:31:44 PM EST
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... public transport in most of the US.

If we get there, then yes, the case can be made that there are strong reasons to go even further, and instead of subsidizing the auto transport system as we do today, shift that to subsidizing public transport instead.

But as an across the board principle, a level playing field would be such a step forward for public transport in the US, that I'm happy to focus on that at present.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 01:35:04 PM EST
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I think ridership in Hasselt (Belgium) went up by a factor of around 10 when they introduced this.
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 03:01:05 PM EST
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