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The TSA is security theater. They fail security audits to an absurd degree. It is only there to ensure consumer confidence in buying air travel and nothing more.
I wonder about these sorts of things on stuff as minor as local public transport, and I feel like the security guards are not earning their money back (so to speak).
(also, public transport should entirely be paid with land taxes)
Public transit security is mostly a waste, it is mostly about "deterring" fare evasion, which is a very minor cost compared to the cost of training and employing entire humans to check for fare evasion.
The money would be better spent on addressing root causes of fair evasion. Out all of it into funding free transit fairs and it would be auch better use of municipal funds.
We had a month of free transit here and everyone said the results were very positive (its already mostly paid for by taxes anyway), so... idk, I'm guessing neolib Labor will ignore it and carry on. We have free transit on Sundays now
Free transit is such a win-win for everyone except the car industry. It's an amazing lesson in capital's control, really.
I guess the argument is if your real estate takes up lots of space, you make public transport more expensive.