1. Of all the major pillars of growing corruption in the world, the fact that you chose to mention Zelensky is revealing to your own personality. It's shameful to inject it into an unrelated discussion about Waterloo transit, and it's shameful to even think it in the first place while Ukrainians die for the dream of liberal democracy.
2. We live in a time of fragile public services that keep getting undermined by populists who want to cut them for their own benefit. They need to be financially stable to resist long term erosion from misanthropic people who don't even like the idea of their taxes going to schools for "other people's kids", let alone a bus that they'll never use. I think we've seen enough stories from around the world to show that free transit doesn't usually produce useful transit. We want useful transit and good things cost money. Free things can be easily branded as money pits + handouts to "welfare queens" and willfully eroded over the years. Good, reliable, useful services are harder to destroy - because voters usually like them.
I thought you were moving to the US months ago?
2. We live in a time of fragile public services that keep getting undermined by populists who want to cut them for their own benefit. They need to be financially stable to resist long term erosion from misanthropic people who don't even like the idea of their taxes going to schools for "other people's kids", let alone a bus that they'll never use. I think we've seen enough stories from around the world to show that free transit doesn't usually produce useful transit. We want useful transit and good things cost money. Free things can be easily branded as money pits + handouts to "welfare queens" and willfully eroded over the years. Good, reliable, useful services are harder to destroy - because voters usually like them.
I thought you were moving to the US months ago?
local cambridge weirdo