Mastodawn

Whether you survey existing riders or look at projected growth in fare revenues from service expansion or improvements, all of the incremental proposals are wrong. There's really no point in discussing #farelessTransit unless you're talking about a dramatic change in paradigm of how we pay for streets, health care, and even housing. The shift from subsidizing cars to providing efficient and cost-effective #transportation is the difference, not the cost of a bus fare with 15-30min headways.

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😀🚲Sep 24

People get too hung up on the cost of #farelessTransit and don't see the benefits of a system without gatekeeping, turnstiles, tracking devices, policing. All-door boarding, or eliminating administrative overhead, and giving access to everyone without jumping through hoops of means-tested reduced-fare programs.

😀🚲May 22, 2025

Five-day weekend for the aerial tram. #pdxBikes #pdxAerialTrams The #farelessTransit shuttle service will be operating at what sounds like 15-20min frequency and getting stuck in traffic.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORPORTLAND_ENT/bulletins/3e18a19

PBOT Travel Advisory: Portland Aerial Tram to close for routine maintenance, May 23-27

City of Portland, Oregon

😀🚲Sep 20, 2024

The politics are against #farelessTransit unless you're talking about making transit much more convenient and useful at the same time. Make it something everybody wants to use, even if they have a car.

😀🚲Sep 17, 2024

Another reason for #farelessTransit, fewer people getting shot about fare evasion

https://mas.to/@kims/113150418825948079

Kim Scheinberg (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image So much this

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😀🚲Feb 14, 2024

#FarelessTransit because your service enhancement through fare hikes fantasy ain't happening.

https://mas.to/@Jyoti/111926268908580040

Jyoti Mishra (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I'm gonna keep posting this as it keeps annoying bootlickers. #ACAB #FuckThePolice

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😀🚲Nov 30, 2023

#TriMet fares increasing to $2.80 in January which is roughly the total IQ of our transit board, in dimes. #Portland #FarelessTransit #ClimateDenial #StuckInTraffic

https://trimet.org/fares/cash.htm

Paying With Cash

You can pay with exact change when boarding a bus, or buy a ticket from a MAX ticket machine using cash.

😀🚲Nov 2, 2023

"Universal #farelessTransit makes fiscal sense. The report notes that for every fare dollar Metro collects, Metro spends $0.75 on the expenses of collecting & enforcing fares." 💸

US #transit agencies that must scale 5-10x to meet CO2/GHG emission reduction goals in the next decade need to learn how to run #trolleyBuses + create a sustainable funding source that can deliver that level of service, not nickle & dime riders while play-acting as a business. #transitTooter 🚎

https://la.streetsblog.org/2023/05/11/new-report-makes-case-for-universal-fareless-transit-at-metro

New Report Makes Case for Universal Fareless Transit at Metro - Streetsblog Los Angeles

For every fare dollar Metro collects, the authors conservatively estimate Metro spends $0.75 on the expenses of collecting and enforcing fares

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😀🚲Nov 2, 2023

@bluGill #farelessTransit costs money, but you get it by taxes so people can more easily decide to take the bus because you're paying for it whether you ride or not. Transit agencies play-acting as a business while we subsidize cars is both bonkers and will never deliver the service, as trimet raising fares demonstrates. Maybe an elected transit board could figure that out, I don't expect the gov's current appointments to get it (Ozzie lol no.)

😀🚲Aug 21, 2023

#triMet: "We're improving elevator safety and reliability by limiting access to riders only." 🙃 what are you achieving by limiting ridership though. Nothing quite like a heavily subsidized public service thinking they have "customers" and "non-customers". Doing #transit wrong, aka not doing #farelessTransit