I must agree that Metro needs to raise fares. However, that being said, I think they do a good job based on the funds available to them. No matter how poor the service, they are hopefully doing the best they can.
The problem with raising fares is sometimes it hurts those you are trying to help get to their paying jobs. From personal experience, I can say, that unless my employer was paying for part of my pass, it could get really tight to buy a pass, or to have exact change for the bus. thus, making it hard to get to work. Granted I had a car, but there were times that money was so tight that gas was hard to come by in the budget too.
The fare raises do not have to be in .25 increments. The Bus in Hawaii, frequently only raises fares by dime. Increasing the revenue, but not causing hardship to the poorer riders, that we want to be able to get to work.
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Well, that's why I was advocating ad space at stops, too.
I admit, I like the art that most of our bus stops have, and it would disappoint me to see it replaced with ads for chiropractors and realtors, but if it meant a significant improvement in service (and even better, the abolition of those horrible ad-wraps they keep putting on the busses), I would happily accept it.
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