don't use public funds for pore If you don’t mind a fully privatized public transport, then you shouldn’t mind a fully privatized public service either. If we think public transport operators and users should privately bear all the costs related to mass translt Infrastructures, systems and operatlons, then we should remind ourselves that our scarce public roads are disproportionately taken up by private vehicles which do not incur the full costs It generates for soclety: Infrastructure, wear and tear, pollution, congestion, accidents and productivity loss. That is why fare revenues only make up one-third of a typical transit system’s operating budget in the developed countries. The rest are made up by taxpayers’ money. If the government can channel taxpayers’ money to build more roads to increase societal benefits of connectivity, why can’t it do the same for mass transit to reduce societal costs of congestion? TAKE ACTION > call for More funding for our mass transit visit transitm 9 Valley Move Transit Ferward