Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas tells hereandnow that the decision to eliminate the city's bus fares is meant to help “regular, hardworking people, mostly the working poor” in his city, putting $1,500 to $2,000 a year back in their pockets.
Kansas City, Missouri, could become the largest city in the U.S. to eliminate bus fares after the city council voted unanimously last week to direct staff to look at how to fund a plan to make bus service free.
“If we could actually build up a culture of bus riding, if we make it easier to do, if we remove the barriers, then our view was we have both great socioeconomic impact, environmental impact, and we get more riders onto the system as well,” he says. He says Kansas City spends around $60 million each year to service the city-wide bus system. The amount of money needed to fund zero-fare transit is only $8 million, he says. It’s now up to the city council to find where in the budget the $8 million can be pulled from.
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