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Re:Estonia's capital made mass transit free a decade ago. Ca... by satyrnein on Friday October 20, 2023 @03:28PM (#37960436)
What's clear is that you don't like cars, and you're willing to make people's lives worse to reduce the number of them.

For less dogmatic people, it may be useful to reflect on what else needs to be done to make public transit useful to more people, beyond the price.

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Re:Estonia's capital made mass transit free a decade ago. Ca... by thot_experiment on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:14PM (#37962897)
Well yeah, obviously if your public transit is garbage and you make it free it doesn't magically become good. Broadly reaching public transit that comes every 5 minutes with timed transfers is what makes public transit good (though it should also be paid for by taxes).
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