Recent Streetsblog LA posts about fares – hikes, fareless

BRU: No Fare Hikes Without Public Process

By Damien Newton | | 34 Comments
Image of "Times": Strategy Center/Flickr Earlier this morning, the Bus Rider’s Union rallied at the Wilshire/Western Transit Station to urge the Metro Board to not go forward with planned fare hikes for Metro bus and rail services until a full public hearing schedule is announced and executed. In May of 2007, the Metro Board adopted […]

Times: Metro Should Raise Fares

By Damien Newton | | 18 Comments
The Times wants to raise fares on transit riders. Photo: Pgsvenk/Flickr In today’s Los Angeles Times, the local paper of record follows up on this weekend’s look at Metro’s operational funding crisis with an editorial urging the Metro Board to increase fares to help close the agency’s roughly quarter of a billion annual deficit for […]