{"id":37663,"date":"2024-11-14T05:25:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T10:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=37663"},"modified":"2024-11-14T05:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T10:25:21","slug":"free-transit-actually-is-a-thing-and-you-might-be-surprised-where-cbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=37663","title":{"rendered":"Free transit actually is a thing, and you might be surprised where | CBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7378840.1731100163!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_780\/orangeville-transit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"149\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/free-transit-orangeville-1.7378695\">Free transit actually is a thing, and you might be surprised where | CBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Since collecting fares cost up to $80,000 a year, Orangeville\u00a0decided it made sense to cover that small portion of the transit budget another way.<br>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 $150,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>~1\/2 Peterborough population.  80k$ to collect 150k$ fares, so 53% goes to collecting etc.  transit is 1.2M$ of 70M$ budget.<br>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since collecting fares cost up to $80,000 a year, Orangeville decided it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-37663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-public-transit","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37677,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37663\/revisions\/37677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}