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Let's Make Mass Transit Free*

Sign up for a 30 day Audible free trial and a free audio book: http://www.Audible.com/CityBeautiful or text citybeautiful to 500500 Check out the latest video on Polymatter: https://youtu.be/NM-odCvJdrI Support City Beautiful on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/citybeautiful This idea of free mass transit is not as crazy as you might think. Plenty of cities offer free transit to students and seniors. Some systems offer free transit in designated zones or on certain routes. Others, like Seoul (2), offer free transit on days where the air is too smoggy. Only a few cities have gone all the way and done what I’m proposing: free transit for everyone, everywhere, at all times. Sources: A. https://www.citylab.com/environment/2018/01/seoul-takes-on-air-pollution-with-free-public-transit/550829/ B. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/05/estonia-will-roll-out-free-public-transit-nationwide/560648/ C. https://web.archive.org/web/20081020214003/http://www.hasselt.be/content/content/record.php?ID=4418 D. http://www.fdot.gov/research/completed_proj/summary_pto/fdot_bc137_38_ff_rpt.pdf E. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/27ad/af099f77cee5a1643c896c9ce0cd89647edd.pdf Produced in sunny Sacramento, California. Audio and video editing by: Eric Schneider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sign up for a 30 day Audible free trial and a free audio book: http://www.Audible.com/CityBeautiful or text citybeautiful to 500500

Check out the latest video on Polymatter: https://youtu.be/NM-odCvJdrI

Support City Beautiful on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/citybeautiful

This idea of free mass transit is not as crazy as you might think. Plenty of cities offer free transit to students and seniors. Some systems offer free transit in designated zones or on certain routes. Others, like Seoul (2), offer free transit on days where the air is too smoggy. Only a few cities have gone all the way and done what I’m proposing: free transit for everyone, everywhere, at all times.

Sources:

A. https://www.citylab.com/environment/2018/01/seoul-takes-on-air-pollution-with-free-public-transit/550829/
B. https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/05/estonia-will-roll-out-free-public-transit-nationwide/560648/
C. https://web.archive.org/web/20081020214003/http://www.hasselt.be/content/content/record.php?ID=4418
D. http://www.fdot.gov/research/completed_proj/summary_pto/fdot_bc137_38_ff_rpt.pdf
E. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/27ad/af099f77cee5a1643c896c9ce0cd89647edd.pdf

Produced in sunny Sacramento, California.
Audio and video editing by: Eric Schneider

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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