MetroLink Tulsa to raise bus fares for first time in 10 years
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
- MetroLink Tulsa announced that it will raise bus fares for the first time in a decade come July.
While 10 years is quite a stretch of time for a transit agency to keep prices the same, one MetroLink official told 2 News that time and economic challenges have finally caught up to them.
"As we all know, the economy is taking a hit, and we've got prices going up everywhere. And our buses are affected in the same way," said BreAnna McCutcheon, marketing manager at MetroLink.
2 News' Douglas Braff reports.
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Wrong move at the wrong time. This is a basic city service that should be free to ride. If you look at the budget for MetroLink, it costs them more to collect and enforce fares than they make in fares. What this will do is reduce ridership further, which will make the costs stay the same while the revenue will decrease further. They would actually save money and not have to stand at stops while people pay if they just ended fares completely.