@rogerlipscombe @neil Lower business rates don't help to revive high streets. In fact, they do the opposite. Business rate reductions are just a handout to landlords.
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Almost 50 cities in France have already done away with paid tickets..."a special event such as a conference, or a car show"
Which is it? What was the event in Tallinn in 2013 which completely skewed the data and which researchers have all failed to allow for in their analysis?
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Almost 50 cities in France have already done away with paid tickets...As I highlighted before, a complete straw man.
Again, you've gone to great lengths to state benefits from making passenger transport free at the point of use which have nothing to do with the original question, which was around your assertion that in a specific case it had kept a lot of cars off the roads.
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Almost 50 cities in France have already done away with paid tickets...No, I asked you if you have data relative to a country you are currently in, for which you asserted there is "Very high ridership/utilization, which keeps a lot of cars off the roads."
Your response has consisted thus far of an assertion that data is unnecessary and a series of straw men trying to restate my question as a different argument and stating other benefits from making passenger transport free at the point of use unrelated to car use.
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Almost 50 cities in France have already done away with paid tickets...And I'm sure you could find a way to convince yourself that increased urbanization or population in the city was the reason for a 40 percent reduction in journeys made on foot.
But, to reach conclusions which are meaningful, data has to be analysed sensibly, rather than desperately contorted to fit a contradictory predetermined conclusion.
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Almost 50 cities in France have already done away with paid tickets..."there may have been many specific time-limited factors involved"
The nature of which is left as an exercise for the reader!
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Almost 50 cities in France have already done away with paid tickets...@Infoseepage@mastodon.socia
Why are you suddenly interested in data?
I thought this was all stuff that you didn't have to show directly!
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Almost 50 cities in France have already done away with paid tickets...Lovely straw man there!
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Almost 50 cities in France have already done away with paid tickets...It is, of course, possible that at the exact moment that passenger transport became free at the point of use, the underlying levels of car use suddenly and drastically increased for completely unconnected reasons, precisely cancelling out a simultaneous reduction in underlying car use driven by the change in approach to passenger transport.
Possible, but not particularly plausible.
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Almost 50 cities in France have already done away with paid tickets...@Infoseepage @GeofCox You've provided the refutation of your own argument there.
And we can see that in practice in, for example, Tallinn. When passenger transport was made free at the point of use, usage increased, but car use didn't reduce. The increased usage came from a mix of reduced active travel and increased journeys overall.
So, yes, you do have to show it directly.
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Almost 50 cities in France have already done away with paid tickets...@Infoseepage @GeofCox Is there any published research showing that it has generated a reduction in car use? I've had a search and haven't been able to find any.