"Free Buses Would Mean 12% Faster Rides And 20% More Riders: Study

Want faster buses? Make them free. The benefits will end up paying for themselves, says Charles Komanoff."

Two caveats: 1) This is for NYC where people ALREADY rely on public transit. In a transit-dead city like #yeg, the increase in ridership would reduce automobile traffic much more, which would have a drastic effect on road congestion.

And 2) The difference in travel rate gained by all-door boarding has already been reduced significantly by the introduction of tap cards. The 12% figure you see here accounts for that reduction, otherwise it would have been 22%. Tapping still takes time though, and eliminating that fare would be significant, but even more significant would be the removal of front-door entry restrictions caused by fare payment.

Both these factors of increased travel speed and fare elimination would increase ridership greatly, but would also fund a much more robust public transit system and make it much more reliable and safer in every other way. More ridership would remove all the barriers of unreliability and drive out undesirable elements that make riders feel unsafe. The net benefit to all, whether they use transit or not, is a massive reduction in our public infrastructure costs which are strained by the inefficient use of automobiles, insane traffic congestion, and absolutely unacceptable levels of danger to survive in the city with all the automobile traffic.

It doesn't matter how you personally get around, EVERYONE will benefit from increased transit ridership, whether you're a parent who wants to survive a walk with kids to school, a cyclist who wants to survive commuting to work, an elderly person who wants to survive walking to the grocery store, a transit rider, OR an automobile driver who wants to get somewhere instead of being stuck in all the traffic caused by unnecessary car use!

#urbanism

> Quit your job, repent, slack off! The world ends tomorrow and YOU may DIE!

Have you considered the connection between your BS job and the heat wave?

If you're not working to fix things you're just contributing to the fire.

Quit your job, build greenhouses and plant food.

Well, this is an encouraging resolution, and I, for one, will be urging my Supervisor to support it - If you're in SF, I urge you to do the same.
"Resolution urging state legislators to champion legislation allowing cities and counties to decide if they want to implement local wealth and progressive income taxes."

And thanks to the Sponsors: #ChyanneChen, #ConnieChan, #ShamannWalton, #JackieFielder

https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7442801&GUID=16B0EF99-150E-412C-AEEB-98D2A4293215

This London Museum Lets You ‘Order’ Objects From Its Vast Collections—and Maybe Even Touch Them.

At the new V&A East Storehouse, visitors can get up close and personal with 250,000 historic and culturally significant items spanning 5,000 years of human creativity

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-london-museum-lets-you-order-items-from-its-vast-collections-and-maybe-even-touch-them-180986848/ #museums #globalmuseum

If you're making music that can even obliquely be considered "protest music," I'd love to help you get it out there by mixing and mastering for cheap (or even free, depending on your financial circumstances).

Art made by conscientious people is very good for the world.

I've already mixed and mastered one protest song from a mutual here on fedi. :) Allow me to help, if you need. Send me a DM or find my email from my website.

#MusicProduction #MutualAid #songwriting #music