The most authentic thing I’ve heard about this particular project comes at the 0:41 second mark of the (non-embeddable) video on the project website.
“The exciting thing about hyperloop’s project is that it is fundable, both by Wall Street and by the USDOT and state DOTs across America.”https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/2/11/the-hyperloop-is-always-greener-from-the-other-side-of-the-stroad
Ride FREE on any WRTA Fixed Route Bus on Ohio Loves Transit Day — Friday, February 14. #OhioLovesTransit pic.twitter.com/MYzqZwQAz6
— WRTA (@WRTAbus) February 8, 2020
Makinen, who lost his eyesight about four years ago, said his disability has helped shape his belief that public transit is more than just transporting people, that it’s a service that should be woven into the “fabric of the community.”
Some naysayers contend that security will become more of a problem if anybody can ride for free. But Makinen dismisses such speculation. He believes just the opposite would likely occur if ridership goes up because more people would be on board to see what’s going on.https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/01/free-public-transit-in-the-works-for-kansas-city-might-cleveland-one-day-follow-suit.html
Free transit passes in @DTColumbus funded by @MORPC provided 1.6 million rides for 15,100 people since June 2018.
— Clevelanders for Public Transit (@CLEforTransit) December 20, 2019
Imagine if @NOACA_MPO, @DowntownCLE, @inthecircle, @CleveFoundation invested in #freetransit instead of Hyperloop.@ParadoxPrize @uGOcirclehttps://t.co/pqdrb0KpbX
"If an alien landed from outer space, they would say what a minute, you’re charging the poorest members of society $1.75 each way to use your transit system, but everyone else just gets to drive for free wherever they want, whenever they want? It absolutely makes no sense."
— Clevelanders for Public Transit (@CLEforTransit) December 5, 2019
The reality is, the taxpayers are already paying for RTA through the sales tax, and from Federal dollars, and the amount of money RTA collects through fares is negligible. Once you eliminate the costs of collecting fares- from the administration of tickets and passes and transfers, to the accounting and control functions of the funds, and then figure in fuel costs and time wasted while waiting to collect the fares- the amount of real revenue is almost none. By returning ad sales to the outsides and insides of buses, RTA could more than make up for the lost revenue and the increases in ridership would be even more desirable to advertisers.https://esrati.com/esrati-proposes-free-public-transit/17386
FREE Public Transit already has a meeting with @GCRTA
— Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com (@sos_jr) October 31, 2019
At @CLERisingSummit’s #CLErising https://t.co/hysUM6icKz#ThisIsCLE — improving #Cleveland pic.twitter.com/01CxwhOUuj
