[BiglyCommentary]

So these cards will be sold for drug money, solving nothing and making an existing problem worse.

[CIB-173RDABN]

So these cards will be sold for drug money, solving nothing and making an existing problem worse.

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Exactly, however you are overlooking the more obvious reason. Slush fund. Create a problem with a lot of funding and little oversight and no accounting and it is possible to skim money off the top.

If they want to make it easier for the “poor” to ride public transit reduce fares for everyone or simply admit that public transit is never going to be profitable and provide the service for free.