It’s not surprising that free rides can juice ridership numbers for systems struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting shift to at-home work. The question is whether such policies are financially sustainable — or fair, given that higher-income riders benefit too.
Yeah, I don’t get the funding issues either. There are many of us who’d want to pay more taxes to EXPAND service deeper into the burbs. Too bad politicians only typically hear the “cut the taxes” constituents…