Comment 97578

By Joshua (registered) | Posted February 13, 2014 at 00:22:59 in reply to Comment 97573

SCRAP, I didn't find any economic models for fare-free transit but 90% of our civic gasoline tax revenue is not being spent on public transit; see http://hamiltoncatch.org/view_article.ph... $3,000,000 went to the Hamilton Street Railway and the remaining $28,000,000 went to roads. Our economic model certainly needs to be discussed and debated publicly.

And, reading of draconian policies, I think your examples speak to a larger issue: that people without access to money cannot participate in this economy. There was a time when barter happened more often, when self-reliance and the growing and harvesting and preserving of one's own food--and the sharing of your excess--was normative rather than exceptional. Then, needs were manufactured and companies created to provide those needs; walking or bicycling, slowing through time and a warm breeze at the nape of the neck, were not enough. Now, time itself became our master and we needed to move with greater speed.

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