The MTA claims the software doesn’t flag fare evaders to the police.
    • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      104·
      11 months ago

      > anyone wealthy enough to buy a car can use it for free

      Anyone with a car is paying additional taxes for fuel and car registration.

      • Nurgle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        11 months ago

        Those typically don’t cover all of transportation dept budgets, and fuel taxes are on the permanent decline.

        • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
          83·
          11 months ago

          Ticket prices don’t cover the full costs of train infrastructure and maintenance either. The point is the statement “anyone wealthy enough to buy a car can use it for free” is demonstrably false and using a demonstrably false statement as a counterpoint is…inadvisable.

          • Nurgle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            11 months ago

            Felt there was an implicit understanding that cars need gas, but yeah that’s fair.

          • elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            I should have specified “… can use the infrastructure for free”. The car will cost money, but you can only use it because everyone subsidises roads, bridges, parking and much more.

            • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
              52·
              11 months ago

              Car drivers are demonstrably paying taxes for the ability to drive on public roads, they are demonstrably not “using the infrastructure for free”. They pay taxes for every mile they drive on a public road. Gas is taxed and cars have regular registration taxes.