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If you live in a city where a significant/most people don't pay for buses/streetcars, do the socialists tend to pay or not pay? (hexbear.net)

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I'm mostly just curious, I will not change my paying habits regardless

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Most people don’t pay for public transit here, which is why our public transit may as well not exist. The people who use it do pay for it (tho I’d rather part of my property tax go toward it.. we have a lot of below-poverty housing communities in my area, which is already a vLCOL area.. and I’d rather pay than they do)

It still does exist in a very basic sort of way, but the funding just isn’t there to expand to anything better than bus routes which take 4x as long as any other options. Despite the fact that the entire region is split by freight rail tracks that don’t allow passenger travel..

I’d love to give up my car. I would. I hate maintaining it and paying for fuel. I hate driving. But public transit here is such a joke as to not even enter the convo unless you are completely screwed.

I’d pay money for transit I don’t need just to know it’s there. But I can’t because that’s not actually an option.