• Barx [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    Public transit security is mostly a waste, it is mostly about “deterring” fare evasion, which is a very minor cost compared to the cost of training and employing entire humans to check for fare evasion.

    The money would be better spent on addressing root causes of fair evasion. Out all of it into funding free transit fairs and it would be auch better use of municipal funds.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      We had a month of free transit here and everyone said the results were very positive (its already mostly paid for by taxes anyway), so… idk, I’m guessing neolib Labor will ignore it and carry on. We have free transit on Sundays now