the thing that gets people on transit isn’t free fares it’s not having to check a schedule. a bus that costs $2 and comes every 6 minutes will outperform a free bus that comes every 30 minutes every single time. frequency is the product. the fare is a rounding error
BREAKING: Councilmember Nithya Raman, in a shocking last min announcement, will challenger Mayor Bass in the June election. The two have been allies historically.
Nithya spoke with me this morning and said she respects Bass, but wants more for the city
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Making Metro free would save working families a good amount of money that would then be spent locally—creating more economic activity for LA.
It’s stimulus for working class areas.
At its height, only 9 to 10% of Germanys population were members of the Nazi party, up to and including World War Two.
All it takes for fascism to succeed is the silence of the rest. Silence is a luxury you can’t afford any longer.
SILENCE IS COMPLICITY!
The Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project is the largest investment in a new transit service in the U.S. in decades, and the largest for Southern California since the establishment of Metro in 1993!