The Problem with Free Public Transportation

Описание: Should public transportation be free? Everyone loves free stuff, but making public transportation free has a number of positive and negative impacts. In this video, I’ll cover the intended and unintended consequences of this policy choice, a street-level view of how it’s working in one US city, and an analysis of whether free transit itself can improve a bad transit system.

Intro 00:00
What’s Good About Free Transit? 00:20
What’s Bad About Free Transit? 01:07
A Test of Free Transit 03:02
Future Hope for Kansas City’s Public Transportation 06:14
Summary 07:23



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Photo Credits (accessed via Flickr)
Kansas City Streetcars & Trolleys by Jazz Guy, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 at 0:54



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