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Re:Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost ... by asdff on Monday December 16, 2019 @11:31PM (#21810595)
Pretty asinine of him to back off at that. Homeless people aren't paying fares already. There are also 60k homeless in LA while 1 million people ride ride metro a day; even if every single homeless person boarded metro one day it would be a blip on your radar compared to everyone else.

What fares hurt most are the working families in LA who pay $76 a month to ride the bus to work or school because there is no other choice. The fact that Newsom didn't connect this dot doesn't surprise me.

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Re:Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost ... by noneckbeard on Monday December 16, 2019 @11:37PM (#21810628)
I think the argument was more that the bus system was already a pretty terrible experience, and making it more terrible would discourage even more people from taking the bus and create a downward spiral of quality.

The obvious correction is to make the bus experience less terrible, but I’m guessing that’s hard w/o increasing taxes or fares, both or which come w serious political and real world costs.

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