Source: Show-Me Institute
by David Stokes
“People don’t appreciate things that are free, for good reason. One of the most famous insults in film history is on point here, when Rodney Dangerfield notices Ted Knight’s ugly golf hat in ‘Caddyshack’ and says, ‘I bet you get a free bowl of soup with that hat.’ The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) didn’t give out free soup to riders when it made all transit free in 2020, but it might as well have. Free transit is great if your goal is to turn buses into mobile homeless shelters. If your goal is to provide quality, safe, affordable transit, then making it free is the last thing you would want to do.” (05/05/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/transportation/free-transit-is-anything-but/