[HN Gopher] Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and ...
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Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air
Author : bookofjoe
Score : 37 points
Date : 2025-11-23 22:06 UTC (53 minutes ago)
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| bookofjoe wrote:
| https://archive.ph/lEmzI
| RicoElectrico wrote:
| I am impressed there was no report of conservative backlash.
| 3eb7988a1663 wrote:
| That is a particularly fine line to walk for the modern
| conservative. Government should not be picking winners, except
| for the very targeted tariffs that just happen to benefit
| company X or Y.
| PopePompus wrote:
| Iowa City is the bluest of Iowa cities. It's a university town.
| b3ing wrote:
| I guess once the car companies find out about this, they'll start
| lobbying the local government and put an end to this
| boothby wrote:
| That's how we lost public transit the first time. Here's hoping
| local government knows their history.
| Tadpole9181 wrote:
| Now the car companies have way more money and governance is
| even more disconnected from the people. I mean, look at how
| the national GOP just nuked legal hemp-derived THC for the
| booze industry.
| id00 wrote:
| In Brisbane, Australia they run a 6-month trial to make all
| public transport trips to be 50c (that includes buses, metro,
| ferries). It was so successful and widely loved that it was a no-
| brainier for it to be extended indefinitely
| touwer wrote:
| Paris, Amsterdam, Kopenhagen, Utrecht did it with bikes
| https://www.ethicalmarkets.com/paris-air-pollution-is-down-5...
| Animats wrote:
| Do they clear out each bus at some end point of the route, so
| homeless people can't live on the bus?
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