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Cake day: March 29th, 2026

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  • the “amenities” eliminated are parking minimums, and you’re assuming that the parking minimums aren’t causing oversupply of unused parking lots. check out the very third photo in the article (the overhead view of a parking lot), its first example of a housing development benefiting from the change. notice how less than half of the spots and thus less than a quarter of the land was being used

    plus, for housing, the parking minimum’s only eliminated for affordable housing, senior housing, childcare, and homes <1,200 ft2. family housing still requires 1 parking spot per home

    These people will still own cars

    not necessarily




  • The report’s argument is that making more people eligible for the existing means-testing while still making the rich pay (those making 400% of the US poverty level currently ride the subway as much as those 0–150%!) has been calculated to be one-third the cost of free busses. The program isn’t adding or restricting means-testing, which is what gradually happened to ACA Medicaid as you mentioned, but relaxing means-testing that already exists.

    My argument against the report is that free fares would increase the bus ridership especially for the poor, invalidating the reasoning that it “wouldn’t reduce the costs of travel for most riders, since 76% of daily transit trips are on the subway”.