{"id":12124,"date":"2015-02-17T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12124"},"modified":"2015-02-16T18:48:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T23:48:32","slug":"why-isnt-public-transport-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/why-isnt-public-transport-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Isn\u2019t Public Transport Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/021615_2343_WhyIsntPubl1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joe Pinker looked at the question of making public transportation free:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some feel so strongly that getting around the city shouldn&#8217;t cost anything that they&#8217;ve come up with ingenious workarounds. In Sweden around\u00a0500 subway riders make a monthly $12 contribution\u00a0to a common pool, cheaper than the $35 weekly pass. They then jump the turnstiles and if anybody is caught, the pooled funds pay the fine.<\/li>\n<li>In theory public transportation is a win-win for all. It would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and alleviate traffic congestion.<\/li>\n<li>In practice experiments with free public transit have found that it barely increases ridership \u2013 and when it does it&#8217;s usually pedestrians who take the subway rather than drivers.<\/li>\n<li>Singapore found that free rides at non-peak hours were a good idea, since they reduced the load on the subway during periods of high congestion.<\/li>\n<li>But proponents of free public transit note that the poor should be able to get around the city and so public transit has to be free, even if it doesn&#8217;t increase usage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article looks at the experience that cities around the world have had with free public transport, and provides many other\u00a0fascinating details. Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/01\/why-cant-public-transit-be-free\/384929\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/01\/why-cant-public-transit-be-free\/384929\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Pinker looked at the question of making public transportation free: Some feel so strongly that getting around the city shouldn&#8217;t cost anything that they&#8217;ve come up with ingenious workarounds. In Sweden around\u00a0500 subway riders make a monthly $12 contribution\u00a0to a common pool, cheaper than the $35 weekly pass. They then jump the turnstiles and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/021615_2343_WhyIsntPubl1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12128,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions\/12128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}