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Jesus Fucking Christ this government is absolutely fucking useless. Public transport price increases during a fuel crisis while burning over a billion on duty cut. #IrishPolitics #SpéirGorm

It would pay for itself

Looked it up: Apparently Dublin Bus earns around €400m from fares per year. DART passengers spend about €80m on tickets. So ~€500m would make public transport free in the capital.

The increased usage and the drop in traffic would make health better therefore reducing costs to our health system. Apply the same logic to ebikes and increased bicycle lanes. However it would mean people wouldn't be buying cars and we can't be having that.

Works out at about €1 per day per person in Dublin County.