Reasons given against fare-free #publictransit

1. Too Expensive
We can show how removing fares reduces car costs, so it actually saves money.

2. "Undesirables" will be more mobile.
Yes, racism is one of the biggest reasons for opposing. Freetransit fights racism.

3. People who usually walk or cycle will take bus instead.
There is plenty of evidence that places with more public transit have more walking.

4. Public transit should win riders through better service, or service should be improved first.
Polls show people want buses (even Trump voters 60%) but we still don't have them. Stronger measures are called for. When buses are free the political support for better service will be stronger.

5. Homeless will ride.
So, the solution to homelessness is user fees, then. OK put user fees everywhere and problem solved.

6. Buses will be too crowded.
Oh dear! Crowded with what? With people who want public transit! So get more buses. 

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Find more info here and with links to documentation.
https://farefreeeu.blogspot.com/p/anti.html?

Biosphere dissolving while we argue about bike lanes

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/

Corporate media desperately attacking as idea of #freetransit spreads.

Making urban buses and trams fare-free has been called "obvious" by NYC Mayor Bloomberg, and "a no-brainer" by major pundits. It's intuitive.

Who is against it?

Surprise: the oil, auto, and sprawl profiteers.

Below is a link to a desperate attack on free transit. In response, we offer a network of over 30 blogs with statistics and direct evidence that cars and sprawl are heavily subsidized. These subsidies are supported because since there are no alternatives to cars, they are seen as necessary expenses.

When enough towns have fare-free buses and trams, the car subsidy will be seen for what it is: government money going to support for-profit, car, sprawl, and oil businesses. Stop and think, how much money does your town export every day for petrol?

Of course the biggest victim of cars, oil, and sprawl is the biosphere. To support this car system we are fouling our own nest.

Fare-free buses are the way to break the monopoly of cars and expose the subsidies.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/idea-of-free-public-transport-has-appeal-but-doesn-t-add-up-here-s-why-119060500189_1.html

Canada political party calls for free public transportation

NDP released their environment/climate plan "Power to Change" and it aims to modernise our infrastructure and transform Canada! Including putting a stop to fossil fuel subsidies, free public transportation, moving to electric vehicles! Yes! #cdnpoli https://t.co/2dpfgdt6tb

— Craig Hunter (@itsyourodyssey) June 1, 2019

Free parking. One of the largest car subsidies. #autosprawlsubsidy

When we find an open spot on the street, and there's no meter, it seems free — but it too is the result of government spending. The cost of the land, pavement, street cleaning, and other services related to free parking spots come directly out of tax dollars (usually municipal or state funding sources). Each on-street parking space is estimated to cost around $1,750 to build and $400 to maintain annually.

https://www.vox.com/2014/6/27/5849280/why-free-parking-is-bad-for-everyone 

For poor people, #climatecollapse is right now

The bankers installed Trump to "take the oil"

When they tell you we can't afford #freetransit, this is where the money went

According To IMF global fossil fuel subsidies totaled a staggering $5.2 trillion worldwide in 2017, - this is investing 5 trillion in the destruction of our climate and future and must be stopped if world is serious about fighting global warming https://t.co/qQRC8erJ9y

— GO GREEN (@ECOWARRIORSS) May 10, 2019

Economists are not your friends

Nordhaus agrees that man-made Climate Change is happening—he is not a "Climate Change Denialist". However, his research actually encourages policymakers not to take the action that Extinction Rebellion demands, or anything like it. He instead recommends managing Global Warming so that the Earth's temperature will stabilize at 4 degrees above pre-industrial levels in the mid-22nd century

https://www.patreon.com/posts/climate-change-26594935 

Essay from 1973, the car system gets worse as it grows. Prophetic.

The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and nature were never intended for the people. Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one. That is how in both conception and original purpose the car is a luxury good. And the essence of luxury is that it cannot be democratized. If everyone can have luxury, no one gets any advantages from it. On the contrary, everyone diddles, cheats, and frustrates everyone else, and is diddled, cheated, and frustrated in return.
This is pretty much common knowledge in the case of the seaside villas. No politico has yet dared to claim that to democratize the right to vacation would mean a villa with private beach for every family. Everyone understands that if each of 13 or 14 million families were to use only 10 meters of the coast, it would take 140,000km of beach in order for all of them to have their share! To give everyone his or her share would be to cut up the beaches in such little strips—or to squeeze the villas so tightly together—that their use value would be nil and their advantage over a hotel complex would disappear. In short, democratization of access to the beaches point to only one solution—the collectivist one. And this solution is necessarily at war with the luxury of the private beach, which is a privilege that a small minority takes as their right at the expense of all.

http://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/