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Estonia’s capital made mass transit free a decade ago. Transit traffic went up but car traffic increased faster. “Any extra money should be put toward transit service, and not zero fares.”

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Jason KottkeMOD

From @zellyn on Mastodon:

This article could also be summarized as:

"Despite a 50% increase in GDP over the last decade, a culture that values remote habitation and cars as status symbols, and an absence of government taxes on car purchases, free transit increases ridership numbers, and limits decline in percentage use of public transportation to just 1% per year."

This is definitely an article you need to read all the way through...the overall message, despite the headline, is not "making mass transit free is a bad idea".

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