Talk:Free public transport

message: Well, what a mess! The lists are unneccessary with the identical categories. Welcome aboard, move to the back and hold very tight please!  Any tidy-up is extremely welcome. How about some pictures?Nankai 02:17, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments 

message: Yeah it is a mess isn't it? I don't know how to do tables. Does anyone else?Nankai 22:04, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Points Taken, tagger! 

message: Zero=0, ie a lack, absence, non-existence of fare collection. There are billions of transport services with free travel for students, staff, elderly, children, babies etc. There is possibly no public transport service in existence that isn't free for somebody. I will remove any references to free travel for certain classes of passenger on this page, go and list them on the Free travel pass article if you want.Nankai 22:08, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free for students/elderly isn't zero-fare 

message: Isn't the Staten Island Railway free for anyone who doesn't get on or off at St. George Station at the north end? Isn't the Staten Island Ferry also free?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.142.73.145 (talk) 22:05, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, made that correction Fenwayguy (talk) 19:36, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Staten Island Railway (SIR) and Ferry 

message: The lists could be usefully structured by country (and maybe continent).Schwede66 (talk) 17:31, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Strong support! Alphabetic order is utterly  pointless.  --ŠJů (talk) 19:48, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: List Structure 

message: This article has several issues. The most pressing one is the extremely long and unwieldy list of "limited zero-fare"; which in many cases means a singular bus line during a limited season. In my opinion, we should axe this list. I don't see any use for it even as a stand-alone list article, althought a Limited zero-fare heading certainly has a place in this article. Anarkitekt (talk) 17:51, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, the definition of limited zero-fare needs to be spelled out. Zagreb is a good example: some fares are free for all citizens (such as tram fares in the radius of c. 1 km from city center), and all fares are free for some citizens (e.g. students and those over 65 years of age). Still, Zagreb is listed as having "zero-fare public transport", while limited zero-fare looks closer to the truth. GregorB (talk) 11:43, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

text: Well done! The article looks much better now. -Anarkitekt (talk) 00:33, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article structure 

message: I have given this considerable thought before proposing this title change to Free Public Transport. It is important to keep the title broad, so as not to miss any of the important opportunities that this approach can lead to. And if you go to our on-going series of articles and presentations on exactly this at http://en.wordpress.com/tag/free-public-transport/, with very broad international participation, I hope you will find the level of discourse and knowledgability on the topic of sufficient quality that you will hold off on your reserves for the coming weeks during which we shall be digging a lot deeper into this important policy matter. For now, we are collecting views and statements which are setting out what are considered to be the main weak points of this excellent path-breaking approach. ericbritton 12:26, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Title change

message: Hi, I currently live in Paris and was surprised to find the nearby suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt on this list. The reference takes me to Boulogne-Billancourt's wikipedia article (in French), which does not mention anything about zero-fare transport. As far as I know, there is no such thing as zero-fare transport in Boulogne-Billancourt.
Can anyone confirm that there is (or isn't) zero-fare transport in Boulogne-Billancourt?
132.165.76.2 (talk) 13:21, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boulogne-Billancourt 

message: Just an FYI that I do recall riding on The START Bus in Jackson, Wyoming. Though trips outside Jackson to nearby locations, such as Hoback, Teton Village and Star Valley, cost money, the Town Shuttle, which runs entirely within Jackson, is zero-fare. NHRHS2010 the student pilot  ✈ 03:09, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jackson, Wyoming 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The tables with the overview of cities contains way too few sources, and even the wikipedia articles of the cities didn't mention public transport in several cases in which I tried. This is unreliable information, it seems.
Captain Basil (talk) 14:54, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: The external link "freepublictransports.com Network of groups promoting free public transport" (http://www.freepublictransports.com/) is inactive.--Arsenal sin platea (talk) 07:19, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inactive link 

message: Hey, Tacoma Washington is serviced by PierceTransit, which does not have free transit as can be seen on their website here, just the LINK light rail is free so I'm going to remove it if no one objects?
 Aurora (User:Horkak)  (talk) 22:09, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tacoma Washington isn't fareless 

message: if I reasonably could, I would add Longmont, Colorado Ride Free Fare Program routes 323, 324, 326 and 327 through December 31, 2021. Run by RTD, I believe, using contractor First Transit. 
Doug Grinbergs (talk) 01:57, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  impossible table editing 

message: Greater Manchester (UK) has several Metroshuttle routes which are free. Should these be in the table? Crookesmoor (talk) 16:24, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi , based upon the wording of the title of the section I'd say probably not. As the section is worded "List of towns and cities with area-wide zero-fare transport" this wouldn't seem to apply unless the routes covered either the whole of Greater Manchester or the whole of a town within it. If the section was expanded or re-named to all zero-fare routes it could quickly become overloaded for a section of a page and would likely come to replicate and duplicate the already existing page List of free public transport routes, of which routes in Greater Manchester are listed there. However, please feel free to add to that list if you can cite any routes in Greater Manchester that aren't included on that page. That's my view anyway. Helper201 (talk) 00:04, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greater Manchester 

message: Why is 'Scotland' listed under 'Town/City'? Should the heading be changed to 'region' or something, or should the various cities operating the transport be used instead? Also, does it even belong on this page? The description only mentions free buses for under-22s, which seems more like some kind of pass rather than free transport (For instance, London (and presumably many other cities) has free buses for under 18s, which isn't mentioned here). CosmicSpirol (talk) 19:26, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for bringing this up. I've moved it to the "Countries with area-wide zero-fare transport" section. What do you think? Helper201 (talk) 09:52, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

text: Thanks! That's probably the best place for it (although it's not exactly a country, but it's more of one than it is a city :) ) CosmicSpirol (talk) 06:45, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scotland 

message: include Worcester, MA https://therta.com/ 107.77.223.184 (talk) 19:21, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worcester, MA