• sabreW4K3OPM
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    1 month ago

    How are you planning to pay the train drivers and station staff? I love free transport systems, but they’re never actually free and at least in the UK, there’s so much staked into the system that it’s impossible to just flip a switch, declare it free and expect it to survive.

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      1 month ago

      You’re from UK that somehow found the funds to enforce “pls don’t carry a knife”

      What I’m saying is that there’s always means to fund reasonable effort if there’s interest for it in the government. Hell, UK found the funds to completely fuck the exports and imports to/from EU

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        1 month ago

        While I agree that the government should fund sensible things. We’re not even willing to fund our NHS, we’re not about to fund free transport. So we need to look at practical means to make it fund itself and force the public to change their habits.

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          1 month ago

          I would argue that public transport is up there in the top 5 things government SHOULD be funding, as part of critical infrastructure.

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            2 days ago

            Yeah, it should be up there with Education and Health