A City’s Bold Experiment with Free Public Transit

What if big-city transit systems were free? What if you could board a bus or train at one end of town, ride all the way to the other end and back, and not have to pay a cent for it? How would that affect the practicalities of urban life in America? The list of possible outcomes, bad ones as well as good ones, is a long one.

The U.S. has tried it before. Will cities try it again?

by Alan Ehrenhalt

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