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What a waste. There is no place in the US so poor that the vast majority wouldn’t choose better service over free. They should have given the transit the increase in budget and kept the fares and used the extra to add more service in some way. Transit should be about where you can get, and no place in the world has service so good there isn’t need for more.
Interesting. Is there a history of this phenomena? Does free ridership have a tendency to stagnate a system? I don’t have anything against free transit, but I do worry that it can devalue it. I am definitely not the target audience, so it is hard to have a definitive opinion.
Comparative only. People who rode before continue but almost no new riders come. If you improve service more people will ride.
you long term stagnate the system because it is harder to get enough money to run when budgets are cut. But the bigger concern is they found the money equal to whatever the fares were and don’t make the system better with that money.