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Re:Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures by bobthepanda on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @10:58PM (#40923318)
It is generally not a huge difference in small systems like you find in college towns.

It is a pretty substantial portion of most major transit agency budgets; BART for example has a farebox recovery of about a third. If you were to totally make it free you would need to basically increase the other sources of funding by 50%.

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Re:Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures by kjkjadksj on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:34AM (#40928087)
LA metro fairbox recovery is like 5% fwiw. Look up median income levels too on that system and you might be inclined to slash fares.
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Re:Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures by bobthepanda on Thursday July 11, 2024 @12:16PM (#40938164)
the argument has always been, is it better to spend that 5% on making it free, or is it better to spend that on making services more useful so that people actually switch to it?

The cost is not really the reason LA Metro ridership is so low and farebox recovery is so low.

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