Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation

Re:Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost ... by baddox on Monday December 16, 2019 @07:01PM (#21808988)

> What a lot of those same people don't understand, is that taxes pay for the road systems.

I don't think those people are failing to understand anything. They're just people who use the road systems and don't use public transit.

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Re:Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost ... by asdff on Monday December 16, 2019 @11:20PM (#21810530)

And those same people fail to realize the fact that they are moving at all in their car in traffic is thanks to those 50 people crammed in the bus in the next lane. Could you imagine if the million people who take LA metro daily suddenly switched to cars? The city would functionally break.

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Re:Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost ... by kiliantics on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:53AM (#21815475)

Yes, for some reason, no one ever thinks of the opportunity costs here. This is why all public transit should be free and all street parking should be paid. If I need to pay 6 bucks to go into town and back on the train, but I can pay a couple bucks in gasoline cost and have free parking, why would I choose the train? The city can change this so easily and maybe even in a way that they lose no money.

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