#triMet: "We're improving elevator safety and reliability by limiting access to riders only." 🙃 what are you achieving by limiting ridership though. Nothing quite like a heavily subsidized public service thinking they have "customers" and "non-customers". Doing #transit wrong, aka not doing #farelessTransit

@srepetsk PS #drivers nobody is going to get out of your car's way until you pay for them to have more appealing alternatives. #deCongestionPricing + fast and frequent #farelessTransit

reminder that the trimet board (like Ozzie) is appointed not elected
and most of them don't even know that raising #transit fares is a mechanism to limit ridership and put an agency into a death spiral
(fund #farelessTransit with this one weird trick: tax drivers)

"Could regular people be opposed to a bus fare increase?"
"No, it must be a dark money cabal."
https://twitter.com/DrSomething/status/1661505053197492225

what mastodon really needs is a way to browbeat your unelected politicians on twitter but check out this piece on #farelessTransit

https://la.streetsblog.org/2023/05/11/new-report-makes-case-for-universal-fareless-transit-at-metro/

Mayors talking tough about keeping transit fares low is cute, but the real ones are saying #farelessTransit is possible with just the money trimet spends on free #parking lots and some taxes on people like #tedWheeler

Imagine if your car breaks down and there's a bus but you don't have exact change or maybe not even any cash on you. Oh wait, they don't even take cash now? #FarelessTransit