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  Sure, if you have police to keep homeless people from sleeping on the buses and trains.
context: Bus systems tend to not bring in enough anyways, might as well just eliminate the cash box and all the expenses and trouble it brings.  How much wasted time is used to check passes >
  
  It’s all part of the same transit  system including the subway, and people jump the fare gates and sneak onto the buses already. The transit police don’t enforce the fares. >
  
  Go Washington DC!
  Public transit should be taxpayer supported, free at the point of service, clean, safe, ubiquitous, run throughout the night, and wonderful enough to make the single occupancy vehicle an economic liability for most of us.   America needs to invest what is necessary to make this happen! >
  
  
  [Public transit should] run throughout the night
  
  So much this.  It's understandable if service slows with the demand drop, but it is simply unacceptable to have 4-8 hour periods where no public transit is available. >
  
  Yes.  There are people who work night shifts who need to get to and from work. >
  
  Or getting back from the bar after an evening >
  
  It always killed me that the boston subway service shut down at midnight, and bars shut down at 1:30am.  Do the math. >
  
  Yes, more of this, please. For people who cannot afford cars or choose not to, this is a godsend. >
  
  This is something that's great in theory. Until homeless people sleep on the bus all day. >
  
  The fact that homeless people use public transit as a form of shelter is a problem. The solution is not to take this option away from them, rather to de-incentivize them from using this option. It wouldn’t be hard, it’s a goddamned bus ffs. Would you choose to sleep on a bus if you had another option? >
  
  The way to de-incentivize it is to enforce fare rules. I'm all for building projects / cheap housing / homeless shelters. I however want safety and order to be enforced on public transit. Hell, I literally had a teenager pull a knife on a bus for asking him to put on headphones or stop blasting his shitty music on Muni. >
  
  No one that disagrees with you is advocating for thunderdome on public transit. Everybody wants to feel safe, including homeless people. Give them a better option and they’re going to take it. If seeing more of them on busses is the kick in the ass that society needs to solve this problem, so be it. >
  
  Yay! Zero fare is what low income folks and the environment needs! >
  
  They both need a lot more >
  
  Correct, but this is still worth celebrating. >
  
  They do this Norway. Public transportation is free and private automobiles are taxed. But you can get waiver for doctors or public servants. >
  
  Germany's busses were free, when I visited there in 2006, medical care too, if you had a card.  They apologized having to charge me for a doctor visit that was just €15 more than my copay back home! >
  
  The Philippines capital city Manila has a Edsa carousel free bus ride on the Main Street I took it many times there so convenient so why not bring this system to USA. >
  
  I would love to see zero fare nationwide.