Los Angeles’ public-transit agency has inadvertently been conducting what may be the biggest free-transit experiment in U.S. history. awalkerinLA reports on what the agency learned — and what it's doing with this information
Photo: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images In March 2020, Los Angeles’ public-transit agency, Metro, stopped collecting fares on its buses as a COVID-19 safety precaution. For the next 22 months, Metro waived fares for anyone who wanted to keep riding its buses, anywhere they wanted to go . And people did keep riding.
L.A.’s Metro is unique among large U.S. transit agencies in that its budget doesn’t rely heavily on the fare box, which made the decision to temporarily waive fares a bit easier in the first place. A ride costs only $1.75, and the total funds collected make up only 6 percent of total revenue — about a third of which goes right back into fare enforcement .
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