• rainynight65@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    The way toll roads work in a lot of places is that they are built with public funds, then a private operator gets a lease for a set amount of time and gets the lion’s share of the revenue.

    And yes, public transport should be free.

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      1 year ago

      Won’t that encourage overuse of transport, which will actually make it harder to reach emissions targets and similar?

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        1 year ago

        It’ll encourage the use of public transport over private vehicles (provided there is a good public transit network present). Public transport has got better efficiencies, and if it can supplant individual transit to a good degree, that’s not a bad thing.

        As far as ‘overuse’ goes: how many people do you know who just travel on public transport for the fun of it? Even in places where people can travel for a flat monthly fee, very few people spend any more time on public transport than they need to. I doubt that free public transport would substantially change that.