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		x0x0 88 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, an... I get that; the cost of enforcement makes that likely negative (possibly even very negative) to the system. My claim is letting trash act like, well, trash and street people wild out on the system drives lots of commuters off. And ime, the worst riders are disproportionally fare thieves.

eru 87 days ago [–]

> I get that; the cost of enforcement makes that likely negative (possibly even very negative) to the system.

Depends on prevailing social norms, I guess?

x0x0 87 days ago | [–]

Oh it certainly does. America has let the requirements for behavior in our larger cities decay to openly allowing criminal behavior. It's wild.

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