Advantages Of Urban Transport

” The time has come to stop making people pay to take public transit. Why do we have any barriers to using buses and urban trains?” (Olsen) If everyone can get from point A to point B whenever they must for free this creates the potential for great upward mobility. This would reduce unemployment, as job opportunities could be searched for in a wider area for people without cars. “It would be good for everyone if transportation costs are reduced. Workers can get to more jobs, companies can choose from more workers and more suppliers, people can take more spur-of-the-moment road trips to outlet malls, etc. transportation costs are reduced - workers can get to more jobs, companies can choose from more workers and more suppliers, people can take

Many people who visit the urban centers do not live within that municipality. Public transport to and from the rural areas or even the suburbs is pretty much on non-existent
Free public transport would create many more job opportunities for people to replace any significant loss. We would need more railroad conductors and maintenance men, bus drivers, station attendants, trolley car drivers and more. And it would make it easier for people to get to their job - they could just get on a bus.
If people were able to travel easily to areas somewhat out of urban areas, then businesses could take advantage of cheaper ground rents out of the city and easy access to employees. With more businesses able to start up, the government would be able to take advantage of more tax. This would mean fewer benefits paid for unemployment benefit as jobs are created out of the city, and more tax via income tax, and then more tax revenue via corporation tax on the businesses. This additional revenue would counterpoise the loss of income from public

Taxes already pay for health care, schools and roads etc. so why not let taxpayers see the benefits for themselves, in a useful service everyone can use. As well as providing services, the government should look out for the environment. No amount of money is too much to protect the environment. For a lot of people, the only reason they don't catch public transport is that it costs too much. If it was free, they'd start using it.” (Levy) “The Hasselt City Council’s principal aim in introducing free public transport was to promote the new bus system to such a degree that it would catch on and become the natural option for getting around. And it did – immediately. On the first day, bus ridership increased 783 percent! The first full year of free-fare transit saw an increase of 900 percent over the previous year; by 2001, the increase was up to 1,223 percent, and ridership continues to go up every day”