• Tired8281@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    That’s why it’s bad policy to think about transit in terms of making a profit. It’s a public service, that’s the profit, and we all get it.

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      1 year ago

      Isn’t it weird that public transit ‘needs to be profitable’, but roads and the infrastructure it drive on doesn’t?

  • Moyer1666@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Public transit should never be treated as an investment that should produce a return. It’s an service provided for people to use. It should be cheap or free. I’ll never understand why people get confused about this stuff, it’s like the dip shits here in the US that’ll complain that the USPS doesn’t make money. It’s not supposed to