Our inner city train stations have banks of free recharging stations, although you're not supposed to pee at them while waiting for your battery to refuel.
I was born on Long Island lived in NYC in the '80s and at the risk of sounding like your grandma bemoaning "in my day sonny boy...." the subways (costing less than a dollar slot coin you put in the turnstile and pushed forward with your hip) were full or rats and covered with unknown substances and you had to be ever vigilant least someone push you onto the track or acost you with incoherent rage because there were no cops to be seen when you needed them. So what I'm saying is nothing has changed but the price for which you got still nothing. From what read about NYC, the leadership has truly lost its collective mind. I second your idea to convert these robo-boogie men into phone chargering urinals. At least that would be useful.
Our inner city train stations have banks of free recharging stations, although you're not supposed to pee at them while waiting for your battery to refuel.
Even public bathrooms on major subway platforms would be a massive improvement.
Huh! Ours just increased to $10 a day, a nice round number. Or $5 a day for people without a job and without money.
$10/day is pretty steep unless you are on a serious commute or ride 3+ times a day. What city is this?
And trams within the CBD are free, so I can't even pretend to improve my VFM by hoping on and off trams instead of walking a few blocks.
Melbourne, Australia.
My commute to the CBD is around 7 minutes.
I was born on Long Island lived in NYC in the '80s and at the risk of sounding like your grandma bemoaning "in my day sonny boy...." the subways (costing less than a dollar slot coin you put in the turnstile and pushed forward with your hip) were full or rats and covered with unknown substances and you had to be ever vigilant least someone push you onto the track or acost you with incoherent rage because there were no cops to be seen when you needed them. So what I'm saying is nothing has changed but the price for which you got still nothing. From what read about NYC, the leadership has truly lost its collective mind. I second your idea to convert these robo-boogie men into phone chargering urinals. At least that would be useful.