Scotland

Sounds good to me. Taking at least some of the traffic off the roads would make it safer for those who do have to use them as well. Maybe a reduction in noise and light pollution too.

If everyone had paid for public transport through their taxes it would be a fairly good incentive to use it. I had a travel pass through work and it was really effective at driving me away from my car and onto the train. If more people use public transport it will take people out of their cars, so traffic will improve. It would also get rid of fare evasion policing and many kids who can't afford tickets would not interact with the legal system.

I think it would be a wonderful thing to enact and would have many benefits for both those using the public transport and those who are not. It would make the air cleaner, make the system more efficient, and would serve as a model for the world.

Imo I would rather it be more akin to the German €50 ticket. But cost £140 instead and if gave a year of public transit across the whole country. It would prevent the money going elsewhere and prevent complaints from people not near public transit

I would, trains are great, and encouraging people to use them more would snowball the train service into being even better. Almost all the problems with public transport (too infrequent, doesn't serve all locations) are reduced the more demand there is for it.

As a former highlander, lol: no. Busses too though, and maybe

I think the issue is that once you've got the extra money there are more pressing things to spend it on. Public transport is great but hard to say no to health and education.

Then there's the broader issue of the laffer curve where raising taxes can yield less than you'd expect because people start to re-locate by buying a bungalow in England to claim as their main residence.