Financial Burdens | Are Government Subsidies The Resolution?
The distinction between capital and operations money makes it difficult for the MBTA to sustain operations while improving their infrastructure to keep up with the demands of riders. Our suggestion solutions are eliminating fares on certain bus routes as the initial step as well as increasing governmental funding to assist in the transition process.
​These infographics serve to illustrate the possible financial obstacles facing the movement to make public transportation free. Instead of the entire system, we believe that focusing on the buses are the good first step with the amount of low-income riders from underserving communities taking the buses everyday. We also suggest financial aid from the federal government to aid transit agencies facing the loss fare revenue from the free transit movemen
HOW TO MAKE FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT A REALITY?
