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Posted by Displaced Angeleno on Sat Jun 22 06:16:32 2019, in response to Re: Luxembourg Becomes First Country to Make All Public Transit Free, posted by MainR3664 on Fri Jun 21 09:57:08 2019. You're comparing discretionary spending items: alcohol, nice food, and a party with an essential service: transportation.Event charges increase turnout by leveraging opportunity costs and the sunk-cost fallacy to encourage people to commit to an event. If I work every day, transportation isn't something I need to be convinced to use, though I may decide which form of transportation to use on the basis of cost, enjoyment, health, time, etc. There are definitely some interesting ideas in re: collective ownership of a transit system, but Oscar Newman's Defensible Space theory in the context of public housing (not entirely dissimilar from public transportation) says that for people to feel compelled to take ownership of a thing, it must be sufficiently private, i.e. a nominal charge to make something technically not a public good isn't enough. |
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