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513. Should Public Transit Be Free?

Freakonomics Radio

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Public Transit

When transit systems are either improved or made free, if there are new riders, where are they coming from? Are they people who were walking and biking? Are they drivers? Because that's kind of the environmental dream, right? That you take all these people clogging up the roads in cars, making pollution in cars, and convert them to public transit. Does that actually happen? So that's a great question, and it gets to what is the goal of public transit? I talked about those two markets for transit, people who, because of age, income or disability, don't have the ability to drive,. People travelling to places where parking is difficult or expensive. The latter group is

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