Kansas City beat us to the punch:
Kansas City Votes to Eliminate All Fees for Using Public Transit
https://www.insidehook.com/daily_bri...public-transit
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Earlier this week, the Kansas City Council voted unanimously to make the city the largest in the country to eliminate bus fares.
The vote allows Kansas City’s city manager to allocate up to $8 million from the city budget to fund the free bus service.
City Councilman Eric Bunch, who co-sponsored the measure with Mayor Quinton Lucas, said making buses free across the city was “the right thing to do.” [emphasis added]
“When we’re talking about improving people’s lives who are our most vulnerable citizens, I don’t think there’s any question that we need to find that money,” Bunch told KSHB. “That’s not a ton of money and it’s money that we as a city, if we want to prioritize public transportation, it’s something that we can find.”
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