Public transit should never be treated as an investment that should produce a return. It’s an service provided for people to use. It should be cheap or free. I’ll never understand why people get confused about this stuff, it’s like the dip shits here in the US that’ll complain that the USPS doesn’t make money. It’s not supposed to
We learned this on the west coast when all those user fees dropped and they couldn’t afford to maintain minimum service levels, even when dipping into the completely unused maintenance fund … oh, wait: that went out as bonuses.
Public transit should never be treated as an investment that should produce a return. It’s an service provided for people to use. It should be cheap or free. I’ll never understand why people get confused about this stuff, it’s like the dip shits here in the US that’ll complain that the USPS doesn’t make money. It’s not supposed to
The return it produces is not immediate cash flow, but the return is vast and on many fronts.
Certainly; however, most people don’t seem to think that far. All they can do is add and subtract.
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And if they can’t do that, their voting pattern is clear.
We learned this on the west coast when all those user fees dropped and they couldn’t afford to maintain minimum service levels, even when dipping into the completely unused maintenance fund … oh, wait: that went out as bonuses.
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