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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
portugeek@c.im ("mia") wrote:
@oldladyplays In Luxembourg, where I live, all public transit is free apart from the TGV. At some point, the government realised that the money collected from fares was irrelevant, there were loads of jobs they were paying for that brought little to no money, and the benefits in terms of public health would be huge, so they just dropped the whole charade.
And this didn’t mean they stopped investing in the network, on the contrary. Bus and train lines have been expanded, and the tram in the capital has grown non-stop; I can now get to the airport from my place faster (or at least as fast) with the tram than I would have with a taxi. And the money lost, budget-wise, is peanuts and will be a net positive when you consider the long-term health benefits (and thus the savings it will provide in the healthcare system) due to having less traffic.