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US Politics 15h

_orangutan

 if you oppose free public transit, then you are pro-traffic and anti-safety
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Anonymous 15h

multimodality will always be more economical, ecologically sustainable, and safer than privatized transportation

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Anonymous 14h

I replied to this already. It’s a complicated. In Hong Kong, fares allow MTR to be profitable, invest in new trains, and maintain very high performance MTR transports 5 million people every day… 99.9% on time (defined as within 5 minutes). The fact that they’re partially privately owned means they’re forced to be profitable. Free public transit doesn’t have that same incentive to be ruthlessly efficient.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

“If there’s no profit motive, then why would we do it efficiently” 🫩

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14h

We wouldn’t, which is why the Boston subways suck along with every other public system

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 14h

The public system sucks when when you critically underfund it for decades, wow, never would’ve guessed 😃🤯

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14h

My brother in Christ there is no efficiency without profit motive

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 14h

Efficiency is simply maximizing output with the minimum necessary resources. Survival is a motive for efficiency, or public service, or resource scarcity.

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