It’s clear our commonwealth will be confronting critical challenges that will have an enormous impact on our future in the next governor’s first term. And the connective tissue of many of those questions resides within our public transit system.
A trio of MBTA bus lines in Boston – Routes 23, 28, and 29 – are part of a two-year fare-free pilot program that launched on March 1 and the bus routes partly pass by Roxbury Community College.
A growing chorus of officials and activists have been pushing for the MBTA to roll out a reduced-price option for low-income riders, but launching that kind of a program might rely on an injection of additional funding, the agency’s chief said Friday.
A pilot program to run the Route 28 bus in Boston free of fares boosted ridership by more than 20 percent, while only about a third of commuters who participated saved money because of costs they faced elsewhere on the MBTA, officials said Thursday.
With MBTA buses rolling by behind her as she spoke, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Wednesday morning that three of the most important bus lines in Boston will be free for two years as part of a pilot project funded by federal COVID-19 relief funds.
