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and weekends exempted)-with ever-increasing more and more expensive technology and security personnel to enforce it. A fact that is prevalent in different cost incarnations and forms around the world Costs in my own city could be greatly reduced, allowing a generous return, if most of this fare evasion technology and enforcement personnel were removed in free transit.

We have 187 rapid transit police officers, attendants, and more expensive technology coming in mainly for our rapid transit-primarily aimed at fare evasion. Free fares would require far less police officers, who would be mostly tasked with dealing with real crime, not using armed transit police officers to check fares, which diverts resources away from dealing with real crime, including muggers, drug dealers and sexual predators. Also, considering that most transit police have minimak training, using an armed police officer to check fares is almost like the Gestapo checking for transit fare proof.

In a society where taxes, personal, government and corporate debts are through the roof, getting rid of transit fares would eventually help the long-suffering global economy...a break we all need right now. Politicians, at all levels, should carefully look at this plan, as a way of helping the average, transit-using taxpayer a break. Larger plans may work, but they are so huge and immensely complicated, that they can so easily fail, make matters worse...or take large amounts of time as finances continue to worsen for the global mindset.

Sometimes, it takes something very basic like eliminating transit fares to get the economy moving again. Millions upons millions of transit-using individuals would be inspired to buy if they could move around so much morely, especially when you consider that many bus transfers are time sensitive. Unlimited, non-time restricting public transit would help unshackle multitudes of people to the world at large, paving the way for a better world for Joe and Jane sixpack whether they drive or not...

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