I'm an idiot....thanks Mike (fixed it)22 & 23 March!
I'm an idiot....thanks Mike (fixed it)
10-4 on that, just trying to figure out how I managed to do it. I mean the 3 & 8 keys are perty far apart from one anotherJust a typo, happens to us all! I just wanted to make sure folks didn't think there was a show on the 28th as well!
Cheers! M2
Yes, I do. I think if admission was free there would be a lot more gang banger and wannabee types showing up.
Several years ago, the City of Austin got the bright idea to eliminate the fare on all the buses, in hopes of encouraging ridership. They had to scrap the idea six months later because crime and thuggery on the buses increased almost immediately.
Completely false. After free bus rides for about 2 years, CapMetro spent the surplus it had and went back to charging regular fees. I have lived in Austin or Cedar Park since 1986. Oh, and my cousin plays bass for Dash Riprock, the band. So there.
A medium-sized transit system that experimented with total fare-free service was Austin, Texas. The experiment ran from October 1989 to December 1990. Ridership increased 75 percent during the experiment, but expanded service accounts for some of this percentage (5), and the People for Modern Transit (PMT) Technical Committee (29) claims that once the ridership increase is adjusted for normal growth and addition of University of Texas student passengers, the initial jump really only amounted to a 10 percent increase. This experiment was regarded as both successful in terms of increasing ridership and disastrous in terms of attracting problem riders who drive away quality ridership and caused system losses due to criminal activity (29). In response, 75 percent of transit drivers petitioned to have the fare-free program discontinued immediately, due to the abuse they were experiencing at the hands of problem riders (20).