14
Zones vs Flat Fares: What’s the Better Transit Fare Scheme?
(www.youtube.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2023
14 points (100.0% liked)
City Life
2104 readers
1 users here now
All topics urbanism and city related, from urban planning to public transit to municipal interest stuff. Both automobile and FuckCars inclusive.
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Imagine all the fare inspectors you don't have to pay, all the fare collection equipment and technology, contracts to software companies to make and integrate a mobile app, credit card processing fees...
It raises an interesting question; if it were feasible to implent without massive privacy concerns, would you support income-proportional fee structure for government services? I'm imagining below a certain cutoff income-bracket, everything would be free.
This is income tax.
Caltrain and Metrolink (California, USA regional trains) have the right idea. Low income Americans by and large carry EBT cards. They give a 50% discount on tickets when scanned. Of course this could be technologically easily made free but it's a start and the remaining challeges are financial and political.