http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/09/22/new-report-10-transit-growth-would-help-meet-house-climate-target/ Your daily source for national transportation policy news and analysis. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/09/22/new-report-10-transit-growth-would-help-meet-house-climate-target/comment-page-1/#comment-84001 fpteditors Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:24:20 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=30421#comment-84001 Most bang for the stimulus buck: Make public transit fare-free. A new Readers' Digest survey show that a majority wants transit funded through general revenue and without fares. Charging fares, is 1. expensive in itself and 2. discourages usage, both reduce the value of our public dollar invested. There is no need to wait for Congress, they are too corrupt. You can do it yourself in your town for about 60 basis points of tax. You will get the money back 100 times over. Most bang for the stimulus buck: Make public transit fare-free. A new Readers’ Digest survey show that a majority wants transit funded through general revenue and without fares. Charging fares, is 1. expensive in itself and 2. discourages usage, both reduce the value of our public dollar invested. There is no need to wait for Congress, they are too corrupt. You can do it yourself in your town for about 60 basis points of tax. You will get the money back 100 times over.

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