Zones vs Flat Fares: What’s the Better Transit Fare Scheme? (www.youtube.com)

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Where scrappy Berlin shines as the A+ example

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[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 14 points 11 months ago

The best solution. No fares. Government provided infrastructure shouldn't be gated by cost. You then are essentially saying poor people can't have access to these things because they don't pay enough taxes and that's literally the opposite of why we have taxes and governments. If the point was to only serve those with money we'd just need businesses. Not also governments.

[-] StereoTypo@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

It raises an interesting question; if it were feasible to implent without massive privacy concerns, would you support income-proportional fee structure for government services? I'm imagining below a certain cutoff income-bracket, everything would be free.