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Bill: Public Transport Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM)
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 2884
Description[?]:
| This Act will remove the financial burden from the taxpayer. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Funding of public transport (where applicable).
Old value:: Public transport is fully subsidised by the government.
Current: Local governments decide upon the funding policy.
Proposed: Public transport is fully user-pays.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:55:18, January 25, 2010 CET | From |  Union of Radical Republicans (UM) | To | Debating the Public Transport Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, an overwhelming majority of Hutori subjects live in urban areas, where public transport use is near-universal. Even for those who do not, public transport provides them with a ready means of transit. And for those few who do not use public transportation on a regular or semi-regular basis, routes are less congested by traffic thanks to vehicles taken off the road by its common nature. Furthermore, this will serve to degrade public transit systems: they are not, by nature, profit-turning enterprises; unlike aviation or TOCs there is no secondary market for luxury or services to make up profits lost by providing a quality product at an extremely low cost. This act would bring expansion and upkeep to a shuddering halt or force those commuters least able to afford it to turn to the roads. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 135 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 256 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow role-play that seems to belong to the world of fantasy, science fiction and futuristic speculation. |
| Random quote: "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting that vote." - Unknown |