Mr Walker is also sceptical about the role ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft can play in dealing with urban congestion.
And new research from the University of Kentucky suggests a correlation between the rise of ride-hailing services and a decline in public transport patronage in the United States.Transport engineer Gregory Erhardt surveyed publicly available transport data in 22 metropolitan areas. "That perhaps they are concentrated at night, bringing people home from bars when transit doesn't operate, and so forth.
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I have been postulating this idea for ages! Think how many cars would come off the road, less pollution, etc. In the 60s in Italy a town did do this & it was a success; but of course the Govt changed & sadly it ended.
We sold the trains to the Chinese and also Darwin Port on 99 year lease, farms from generational foreclosed by banks and sold to the Chinese.
Why should it be? Some spending $$$ on coffee and pay for your damned transport, people.
Vested interests, who currently profit from payments, e.g. credit card companies (taking their cut of payments), the makers of the ticketing systems, toll road operators. If free, it'd be cheaper to run without the ticketing infrastructure, barriers. PublicTransport
now we have crowded trains n buses If they r free it'd become unbearable to catch trains &buses They wont be able to cope Many homes r far from stations n buses only run every hour
It is in Luxembourg free publictranport
Payment for fuel, servicing, buying buses, paying for roads, drivers wage & so on. If you want public transportation to be free, you pay for it & don’t ask me to pay for it.
We already have free Public Transport. Often only one in five commuters swipe their Myki and sometimes only one in ten.
Idiots
Thr “user pays” principle is addressed to the argument that tax supported activities provided free are intrinsically unfair to those tax payers who never use them. It also relieves strain on the budget.
Great article ABC. Would never have heard of this in Aust commercial media.
Not everything can be like the ABC
Tax payers pay the bill so I guess the free thing is sort of true
'Free, the government should pay for it' Nothing is free, the government does not pay. The tax payer pays, FFS.
Roads and transport never pay for themselves. Smart governments invest in whatever provides the greatest benefit by enabling society to function. PT is usually therefore where the money should go, and it provides its best return if tickets cost something.
I don’t know if it’s still the case but in Prague passengers paid 2 krona(?) to use a suburban train regardless of how far they traveled . No ticket. No expensive IT systems. No idea if it paid for itself.
It is LoL
If I don't use something, why should I have to pay for it?
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