No public transit system in the world was entirely"free" — which means not actually"free," but funded solely by taxpayers rather than riders — until 2020, when Luxembourg abolished fares. D.C. and New York are not Luxembourg, however. In the rest of the world, if you want a city with the walkability and functionality of, say, Paris, you have to do what they do in Paris — heavily punish fare evasion.
I would love to live in the very sort of city these climate change warriors claim to want — and in D.C., I almost do. I live in a studio apartment blocks from where Joe Biden illegally stashed classified documents. I haven't owned a car in almost a decade. I almost exclusively use public transit.of the budget deficit of New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Maybe one day, politicians will consider proposals to phase out the national automobile addiction. But until the biggest backers of public transit start defending their own transit systems from mass theft, why should Biden or anyone else take them seriously?