It doesn’t require any surveillance state shit? It’s literally just a “throw tax money on it” -problem. If public transport is free or at least considerably cheaper than private car, more people will use it, meaning there’s more space in cities for pedestrians and cyclists, less pollution, what else. Then sell your carbon offsets to Germany to get back your investment on public transport lmao
How are you planning to pay the train drivers and station staff? I love free transport systems, but they’re never actually free and at least in the UK, there’s so much staked into the system that it’s impossible to just flip a switch, declare it free and expect it to survive.
You’re from UK that somehow found the funds to enforce “pls don’t carry a knife”
What I’m saying is that there’s always means to fund reasonable effort if there’s interest for it in the government. Hell, UK found the funds to completely fuck the exports and imports to/from EU
While I agree that the government should fund sensible things. We’re not even willing to fund our NHS, we’re not about to fund free transport. So we need to look at practical means to make it fund itself and force the public to change their habits.
It doesn’t require any surveillance state shit? It’s literally just a “throw tax money on it” -problem. If public transport is free or at least considerably cheaper than private car, more people will use it, meaning there’s more space in cities for pedestrians and cyclists, less pollution, what else. Then sell your carbon offsets to Germany to get back your investment on public transport lmao
How are you planning to pay the train drivers and station staff? I love free transport systems, but they’re never actually free and at least in the UK, there’s so much staked into the system that it’s impossible to just flip a switch, declare it free and expect it to survive.
You’re from UK that somehow found the funds to enforce “pls don’t carry a knife”
What I’m saying is that there’s always means to fund reasonable effort if there’s interest for it in the government. Hell, UK found the funds to completely fuck the exports and imports to/from EU
While I agree that the government should fund sensible things. We’re not even willing to fund our NHS, we’re not about to fund free transport. So we need to look at practical means to make it fund itself and force the public to change their habits.
I would argue that public transport is up there in the top 5 things government SHOULD be funding, as part of critical infrastructure.