If you’re earning $7.50/hr and have to pay $2.50 each way to get to work and send kids to school on the bus, it’s a huge portion of income. Making buses free allows low income people to have mobility for more than just work.
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Not buses but we have a train service in my area. Its operating expenses are $58 million and its fare revenue is $4 million. When you factor in the costs of fare collection and enforcement it’s just not worth it.
jun 18, 2025, 6:31 pm • 3 0 • view
This describes 1 in 100 workers in the country and many of them are people like teenagers or second earners usafacts.org/articles/min...
jun 18, 2025, 4:29 pm • 7 1 • view
I have been poor and coming up with public transit fares was a struggle.
jun 18, 2025, 5:05 pm • 1 0 • view