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by Jack Davis
One of the largest barriers to sustainability in Canada is the use of motor vehicles as a primary means to get around. It comes with the landscape: a large nation with cities s...read more
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I am a 47-year old man who rejected the norm of possessing and utilizing a privately owned, fossil-fueled motor vehicle in 1987, As such, I have a clear and obvious vested inter...read more
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Public transportation should be free-it would ease the cost for many if it would be free. More people would ride it, easing the price of oil and gas, less demand, less prices: s...read more
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Free public transportation would not create a utopian world as some would have us believe, but it could make life easier for many. This is because personal forms of transportat...read more
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Although many of us would not prefer to take public transportation if given a choice, the more people we have taking buses, trains, and subways, the less people we have on the r...read more
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by Emily Mooney
There is a wealth of data supporting the notion of fully subsidized public transportation: most prominently, 5:15pm in any major metropolis. Cities across the U.S. are adding s...read more
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Public transportation is a service aimed at providing a means of travel for the general population. The term "public" indicates that the transport is available to everyone, yet ...read more
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Public transportation should defiantly become free. Now when I say public transportation I do not mean planes or ferries or even taxis. I am talking about trains and buses. I...read more
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by Todd Pheifer
We have a problem in this country. Large numbers of people have to get from Point A to Point B. No longer are home, work, school, church and shopping within easy walking dista...read more
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by Conny Manero
I'm standing in an aisle inside a subway train. As I hate "sniffers", and certainly do not want to be one myself, I try to get a hanky out of my pocket. Slowly I let my hand t...read more
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Public transportation should be free to anyone in the United States for several reasons. First it would be a great incentive for people living in large cities to use public tra...read more
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by Stacy Wyatt
Public transportation should be free for the elderly, disabled and the kids trying to get to and from school. Now people who work everyday for a living and do not drive to wo...read more
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Yes, you can ride y'all for free, on public transportation, as far as i am concerned. I lived in Chattanooga, TN. It is a blessing to ride the elcctric buses for free all arou...read more
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You bet it should. Think about it, the government pays for all that rolling stock, for the rails and energy to drive it and for all of the station staff and drivers and ticket ...read more
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by Lester Nixon
The government can play a positive role when it comes to making public transportation free because of the benefits it offers to society as a whole. .Funding free transport for t...read more
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by Amy Huang
Promoting public transport encourage more people to use public transport and leave their cars at home, and not only does it have benefits for the environment and the flow of tra...read more
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Over the past twenty years society as a whole has become more and more concerned about environmental issues and specifically climate change. Indisputable evidence of melting ice...read more
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by Maria Brogna
Tuesday Nov. 12, 2008 at 6pm I received a phone call from South Street Elementary School in Fitchburg, MA where my 5 year old attends kindergarden. It was a charming little reco...read more
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Our tax dollars pay for our children to get a ride to and from school every day to become productive members of society. It's a part of the taxes for public education to pay fo...read more
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by G. Lee
I would have to wholeheartedly agree that public transportation should be free. In regards to current issues on public transportation, I guess it should be reasonable request fo...read more
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I'm puzzled by the whole concept that public transportation should be free. Nothing is free. Everything is paid for by someone. If you believe public transportation should be fr...read more
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by Jeff Vidrine
Public transportation is defined as those transportation systems run, managed, and financed by a governmental agency. Public transportation is government transportation. We have...read more
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by Sean Curtis
The old adage is "nothing in life is free." This would definitely apply to the question of whether or not public transportation should be free. The fact is, even if it were "fre...read more
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by Tom Parsons
When I was a child living in a large city, buses ran up and down the major streets of the city at very regular intervals. I remember my older sister taking me on a bus to a down...read more
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by Amon Kara
If you think public transportation should be free, I have one question to ask: Who would pay for it? Definitely you, the reader and every tax payer. Would that still be consider...read more
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by Lostinchina
Free public transport? That is an oxymoron if ever there was one. If the user does not pay, where will the funding come from if not from Government Tax Revenue? We the people...read more
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Public Transportation Should Be Free Someone who uses public transportation would probably disagree wholeheartedly. Why would someone mind paying a dollar and a half or two ...read more
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Public transportation, or mass transit, should be free. Not free of cost to riders but free from government interference through subsidies or needless regulation. Such interfere...read more
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Freedom means ranges of motion unbonded. Transportation efficiency ought to have a effective of efficiency coefficient for cost as possible inclusive of the public sector. Yet t...read more
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Consider the price of running a car. Aside from the initial investment, you need to also be able to afford gas, insurance and regular maintenance. However, many people consider ...read more
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by Kris Kennedy
Free Public Transportation Passengers take public transportation to cut transportation costs. Who would pick up the cost of free public transportation? The answer would have t...read more
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What happens when a public service becomes free? The people who use the service no longer need to pay for it. This does not, however, mean no one pays for it. The money simply c...read more
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by B Smith
There is one universal truth that people need to learn early in life: Nothing is FREE! Whew, I feel much better. It was a very cold evening in the small, southern town that I ...read more
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As someone who is a strong advocate of sustainability and conservation, the reflex reaction on this debate topic was to agree. Free public transport, and I should clarify that ...read more
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With due regards to the creator of this topic, it is submitted that the proposal to make public transportation free is simply ridiculous.One cannot understand the logic behind t...read more
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by M Pereira
Having free public transport would be a dream. Imagine just walking on any mode of vehicle and taking a swift ride to wherever desires meet - not meeting an inspector, not being...read more
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by Clydene Rae
Public Transportation is a choice. Depending on the city in which you live, there can be some great transportation. The Seattle metro area has a great transportation system. ...read more
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by Dan Hammond
In an ideal, state-controlled world, public transport would be free. However, if we look at the debate in detail, it's obvious that free public transportation would really not w...read more
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by Joseph Malek
Like it or not, in the true spirit of economics, nothing but the air and love is free, but we can wish and hope and dream about a time in the future when some kind person is wil...read more
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No. Public transport should not be free nor should it be expensive. Public transport should be so affordable that anyone and everyone can, and will, use it without a second thou...read more
