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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: supply-side/trickle-down economics economics, in a nutshell, if one wants to use that antiquated, but still viable to some degree term. It would also ease the economic strain on many, especially in these horrendous economic times, by removing what can be for many a huge economic strain, spending large sums on bus fare, and light rapid transit. Saved bus fares by many could be pumped back into the economy by higher retail sales and the such, and with the costs of public transit fare removed people could get there much easier. With no transit costs, it could easily encourage people to ride everywhere, benefiting all sectors of the economy.

Some will argue that taxes could go up to pay for free transit. But the returns in retail sales and higher-productivity could return huge dividends to government coffers, easily offsetting higher taxes, and allowing a stronger return in more revenue for the government through more personal and corporate taxes, in a more workable and viable trickle-down economic reality. Productivity definitelly goes up for transit-bound workers as the high cost of bus passes and individual transit fares are simply eliminated. A huge problem for people not grossing large salaries is the cost of transit fares every day, every week, every month...Eliminate the cost and people are more inclined to be at work and have higher-incomes, which translates into more tax revenues for governments.

Transit costs are usually offset by small levies to various tax structures. Eliminate transit costs and there'll be a deficit in the beginning. Within a year or two, there will be a return that will not only offset these deficits, but return a profit to the government that could even help renovate aging transit infrastructure, and improve it through modern cost-alleviating technologies. Transit fares can be a huge burdern to the economy. The costs can also be excerbated through too many transit-fare evading technologies and personnel. Take away the costs, less personnel and equipment needed to maintain the enforcement of such fare collection-which also helps to ease the costs and taxes.

Where I live, transit fares are split into a complicated series of zones with an ever-increasing rate into each zone that starts at morning rush hour and terminates at the end of evening rush hour (holidays

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