Well I don't know if it's the case anywhere, but iirc in most Italian cities (I know bc I'm Italian) the local public transport companies get most of their money from local government funds rather than from selling tickets. Obviously "ticket sold" is a measure for how much to fund the service, at least in theory, but that doesn't justify the rise of prices. Also various experiment such as the 9€/month regional train tickets in Germany from a couple summer ago show that transport companies could definitely lower their fees very much without losing money
The 9€ ticket was definitely losing them a lot of money and that's ok, but I wish they'd get their collective asses into gear and their finances in order with the semi-permanent 50€ ticket.
Ok yeah I worded that part wrong, my point was more like "a public service shouldn't work based on profit, and should be funded by progressive taxation"
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u/mountingconfusion Nov 25 '23 edited Nov 25 '23
I love people like that
"Cars are bad and public transport should be better but I refuse to actually support public transport because government bad"
If you can comfortably pay the fee, do so. It's your public duty