| Comment | > is massively funded by central government
Yes. That's basically how it works in nearly any city in nearly every country.
Transport networks are usually highly subsidised, especially in the examples where you have extremely high level of service. Bus services tend to depend on subsidy more than other modes. In the London example, the underground network turns a significant profit, but the buses require a substantial government subsidy to be able to run the frequencies they do at the £1.75 flat fare they do.
You get what you pay for. And other cities have extremely well connected, easy to use transit services because it's a non-controversial government priority.
The direction of travel is that we are slowly moving towards that model that's normal everywhere else, and we should expect our transit provision to improve. |
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