Since collecting fares cost up to $80,000 a year, Orangeville decided it made sense to cover that small portion of the transit budget another way.
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Since collecting fares cost up to $80,000 a year, Orangeville decided it made sense to cover that small portion of the transit budget another way.
The budget for Orangeville transit is almost $1.2 million a year and in 2019, the last year for which data is available, fare revenue accounted for about $150,000.
~1/2 Peterborough population. 80k$ to collect 150k$ fares, so 53% goes to collecting etc. transit is 1.2M$ of 70M$ budget.
this will make me sound like a commie, but why is public transit considered a cost, when it should be seen as a service. the sign of a functioning system is good,cheap public transit.
