Do you ride more because it’s unlimited? When you get to your stop for your office or dinner or whatever, do you go back home and then back again before getting off? Do you go all the way to the end of the line to minimize your cost per mile, then walk back to your actual destination?
Of course not, you use it as efficiently as possible to do the thing you used public transit to actually _get to_.
Do you consider the money you spend for your unlimited pass as rent for housing or office space? Do you just stay on the bus all day, working on your laptop and holding meetings?
Unlimited transit passes are similar to unlimited vacation plans: people normally need and use much less than 100% of the resource offered. People also don’t normally push 100% bandwidth 24/7 through their unlimited plans.
If everyone decides to use their unlimited transit pass in this way, they will go away or increase in price accordingly.
Of course not, you use it as efficiently as possible to do the thing you used public transit to actually _get to_.
The comment I replied to claimed transit systems don't sell unlimited-ride passes. I was pointing out that some of them do. What you're arguing is they wouldn't have the capacity to handle it if every person bought such a pass and immediately ceased all activities other than riding transit 24/7, which may well be true, but is also a non sequitur.
Though since you ask, it would be a bit difficult for me to "maximize" use of my Caltrain pass in the way you're suggesting, since going "all the way to the end of the line to minimize your cost per mile, then walk back to your actual destination" is not realistic -- the line is ~80 miles long.
