I'm from "socialist" Europe and my country has among the highest public transport usage of the EU🙄 Public transport should be affordable and additionaly lsubsidised for those in need but not "free". Estonia also went back after 10 years www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023...

"the story isn’t simply that making transit free doesn’t work. In Tallinn, a host of factors conspired to make transit less attractive—or, perhaps it’s more accurate to say, the car more attractive." Good lessons on how nyc and other cities can implement free transit and have it be effective.