“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”
This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.
@dx @jwildeboer The worst argument against such things is public transport can't be free because
then nobody is contributing their part and getting something for free. I don't know exactly how to explain this but it is this mindset of nothing should be free, don't be a freeloader.
It's almost like some kind of envy of not wanting the other to get something they don't deserve . Greedy and envy go over logic.
Logic because without checks public transport would be much cheaper to finance.