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Progress and Public Transit: an End to Subsidy
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Progress and Public Transit: an End to Subsidy

Transit should cover its costs with fares

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Andrew Miller
Nov 19, 2024
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What does ‘progress’ mean for public transit?

I say it means solving the problem endemic to transit operations, which I described in detail last time. I call that problem the Endless Emergency: the fact that public transit, across North America, always seems to be in crisis. Transit service generally ranges between poor and adequate, always falling shor…

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