Chief financial officer Glenn Lee warns some DC tax revenue could fall by as much as four hundred sixty four million dollars over the next three years. He's proposed cutting the free ride program to save money. Interest rates are up. Real estate is down. And all of a sudden there's no money for radical transit ideas. Mayor Muriel Bowser, heretofore hush hush on the free bus bus, she breaks her silence.
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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