You and I both, then :-)

I see that you interpreted “free things” as “all free things”.

That is true...because the subway is highly used and efficient. The highest use bus routes could turn a profit.

So hire people as security rather than fare enforcement?

Yep, that’s cool. ‘Twas a good weekend conversation. Enjoy your holidays.

I’ve worked with municipalities for many years and their transit divisions, on oversight committees and boards and here is what I can tell you.

Turns out, the biggest cost of bus/van transit is the driver, and smaller vehicles don’t save anything there. Hailing apps are  not particularly valuable on heavily traveled routes (you’ll probably get hails almost non-stop). And how’s that work for people who don’t have a working smartphone? Where I am, if there’s a 9…

Yeah, you cannot encourage people to ditch their cars by increasing the ownership cost of cars. It just doesn’t work, because the cost of public transport is always whatever the cost of the car is plus the cost of the public transport option. The only way to do it is by making the cost of public transport go away,…

It will not matter if the MBTA was free for customers if no one in or around Boston wants to use the service.

Also, the cost savings from getting rid of “fare officers” and the related BS that comes with it makes a ton of sense.

Make all public transport free, it is already taxpayer funded in one form or another, directly or indirectly, so might as well just make it free and save money on having to run office costs in calculating fares and subsidies.

 You feeding your family may impact my 401k.

If only she had a digital tire pressure gauge this could have been avoided

Why get rid of the boob light? <woke>Because its toxic misappropriation of female bodies is literally an act of violence toward women, and therefore we must immediately cancel and dismantle every boob light — which is much more fun if someone else owns them. Grab your pliers! It’s a small but necessary step toward…

Yeah I don’t think this is a huge deal IF Tesla does the following:

I mean, I can see both sides of this; on the one hand delivering incomplete cars is kind of a WTF moment. On the other hand, it’s a couple USB ports and the car is otherwise fine, giving the customer the option to take the car now with all the actual car parts of the car otherwise perfectly functional and get such a…

Centrists rely on gaslit progressives and disgruntled republican to get elected because there is not but a handful of precincts in the US that would actual have a centrist base.

If we want to blame someone, let’s blame the voters of North Carolina who could have elected a democrat to give us 52 or 51 votes. That would make Manchin irrelevant. 

It’s so dumb too, because more electricity use due to more electric cars should benefit his state. We can’t stop burning coal right now and if electricity usage increases, it seems like they will probably have to keep running at least a while longer until other energy generation catches up. It would be so easy to push…

Republicans: “Don’t ya’ll hate high gas prices?! I don’t remember paying this much for gas under the last administration!”