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Federal Program Fails to Promote Transit

Apr 26

2007

Here’s a great idea. The federal government should give its employees free transit passes. That will encourage a lot of them to leave their cars at home.

Actually, it turns out that it will encourage a lot of them to continue driving but to sell their passes on ebay to people who are already taking transit, thus taking zero cars off the road. When the GAO followed up on ebay transit pass sales, they were all being sold by federal employees.

The GAO estimates that this scam costs federal taxpayers $17 million a year — and that is an absolute minimum. But isn’t it worth the cost to know that the intentions were good?

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