I've heard this argument before. I didn't know how to potentially respond to it until they actually changed the prices.
I've heard this argument before. I didn't know how to potentially respond to it until they actually changed the prices.
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rising gas prices
Most of my local public transport is electrically-powered now, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
who buys tickets with cash anymore lol
I did recently when I lost my travel card. Some people also travel using cash habitually for privacy reasons (What if someone has an abusive partner watching bank card transactions and transport card accounts? What if there's a data breach? I recall a few years ago one train network voluntarily gave aggregated trip data to a student researcher which could pretty easily be deanonymized.)
Maybe it's different where you live, but cash certainly lives here.
Most of my local public transport is electrically-powered now
Which is kind of my point. Over the years our public transport has been proudly advertising their use of biodiesels and bio gas, CNG and LNG. And apparently battery-electric buses are coming too. (Sorry, Adam Something. Apparently our city cannot into trams, as fucking awesome as it would be! But apparently the Green Party is proposing TRAINS)
cash certainly lives here
Yeah, and that was kind of a pointed example on my part. I don't think cash is going away entirely. That said, vast majority of our public transport is already apparently either going on prepaid cards or debit so, eh.
Most public transportation systems are funded by subsidizes. Fares only make 1/10th of most revenue.
That's why they aren't private transportation systems 😉
There are few. They usually subcontract all the shit the public systems don't want to do. They do it for margins and do it with crap pay to the drivers and service.