Meanwhile in North America, Canada’s VIA is operating on a shoestring and being further threatened … and in the last 50 years the US has pulled up most of the rails that were installed in the previous century. We’re stuck with airplanes, hybrid metro-transit, and what’s left of Greyhound. But, hey, we’ve got a world to police!
Pointing to this whenever the conservatives in Sweden say we need to raise prices and hire more ticket cops in order to increase ridership
How does that logic make any sense? You need less barriers for rides hip, not more.
You’re telling me.
The argument that they make is that more ticket sales -> more funding -> better service -> more riders
But honestly they spent so much on enforcement, it eroded the funding argument, and having to pay for €100 tickets every month, paying increased fines, and pass through slow ticket gates erodes the better service argument.
I guess that makes a little sense, but public transport should be an expense, not a business.