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[quote=Anonymous]Free buses have worked out well in Boston (and other places). On the scale of municipal expenditures they're small potatoes.

A general problem we have with buses is that if you force everyone to load in the front, it takes forever, but if you let them load in the back (which we do on SBS), half the people don't pay. So unless we want to switch to a European-style honor-system-but-you-get-a-$1000-ticket-if-they-catch-you-without-a-validated-ticket type deal, making buses free would provide a major boost to speed/performance by getting rid of that loading/fare collection delay.

Also, I can say as a happy regular M15+ rider that a fast bus - faster still with bus lanes and congestion pricing - makes you want to use the subway less, and there are a couple of subways that are currently well over capacity with no realistic way to add more. If making the M15+ free will persuade say 20% of the people taking the 4/5/6 during rush hour to switch to that instead, that will produce a HUGE quality of life increase for a whole lot of New Yorkers at a pretty modest cost.[/quote]

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