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Should Public Transit Be Free? More Cities Say, Why Not? – The New York Times

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Should Public Transit Be Free? More Cities Say, Why Not? – The New York Times

Fare box recoveries are so low, they might as well make it free.

It costs a lot of money to collect money, while most transit systems are heavily reliant on state and federal subsidies -- CDTA relies on 85 percent of it's revenue from sources besides fare boxes. Smaller systems recover even less from the fare box.

Why is the federal government subsidizing airports?

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I was thinking the evening, how silly it is that the federal government is operating our air traffic control and security check-ins at airports. ✈Airlines are a for-profit, money-making operation, they should themselves be operating and paying for air-traffic control, not taxpayers. Airplanes are expensive and polluting, an industry that should be taking care of their own expenses, 💰 not something at the trough of the taxpayer, many who can’t afford to ride planes, certainly not at a regular interval.

Hang Gliders above Greylock

NPR

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Studies Find Redlining Linked To More Heat, Fewer Trees In Cities Nationwide : NPR

In cities around the country, if you want to understand the history of a neighborhood, you might want to do the same thing you'd do to measure human health: Check its temperature.

That's what a group of researchers did, and they found that neighborhoods with higher temperatures were often the same ones subjected to discriminatory, race-based housing practices nearly a century ago.