Allen's plan is called Metro for DC. The bus connects our neighborhoods across our city in a way that rail doesn't, he says. Only 7% of a mod is operating costs are coming from that bus fare revenue,. So it's not a huge gap that you actually have to fill by putting those investments forward," Allen says.
Transit agencies nationwide are facing an existential crisis. Washington, DC’s city council has a paradoxical solution: make subways and buses free.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Additional help from Miles Bryan and Jolie Myers.
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