Youth Perspectives on Transportation: Free Public Transit
for a More Just, Equitable, and Sustainable Urban L.A.
Youth advocate interning with ACT-L.A. urges city to get rid of transit fares
By Eli Pallrand, StreetBlogLA, 13 September 2019
When you wake up each morning, what do you think of first?
You probably think about what you’re going to do that day. Off to school, then
back home, but do you ever pause to think about how you’ll get there? Probably
not, but take a second to consider it, because whether you step out into the
crisp morning air and into the driver’s seat or into the nearest subway car can
change a lot. It’s not just a matter of how you get to where you’re going, but
the means of getting there.
Building networks of public transit users – ones from across
the spectrum of people who live in Los Angeles – requires removing the biggest
barrier to use: the transit fare. It’s imperative that the change be made now.
Compared to public transportation, a single car throws
vastly more carbon into the atmosphere, fits fewer people, and isolates us from
our communities. Like any other essential program, say healthcare or college,
we need free public transportation. Until transit is free, every city without
it will be plagued by the dominance of cars – and car companies – which destroy
an environment already under siege.
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