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City Limits: Should public transit be free?

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The American Rescue Plan and the COVID-19 Pandemic

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D.C. City Council member Charles Allen wants to make bus and train travel free in the nation's capital. The plan would also create a $10 million equity and service improvement fund, he says. Public transit ridership is down 90% since the global COVID-19 pandemic was declared last year. A lot of people did not want to return to the office even though their employers wanted them to do so because they were scared to use transit for work.

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