Just in time for back to school season, Metro announces a partnership with Target, which has agreed to sponsor Inglewood Unified School District’s GoPass participation for the upcoming 2022-2023 school year. This will mean that nearly 8,000 students enrolled in Inglewood Unified School District will be eligible for the GoPass [continue reading]
Here is the news release from the LAUSD: Los Angeles, CA (October 1, 2021) – Los Angeles Unified School District and Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) are announcing a game-changing partnership to offer TK-12 students unlimited rides from October 1, 2021, through June 30, 2023, at no cost [continue reading]
We launched our Fareless System Initiative in Aug. 2020. The program’s goals are simple: to use fareless transit as a tool to help L.A. County residents deal with the ever-rising cost of living here and help recover from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. That’s important because about 70 percent of our riders are considered low-income. [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors today approved going forward with development a fareless pilot program to benefit students and low-income riders and to determine whether fareless transit could be expanded to more riders. In approving a motion with a friendly amendment by a 12 to 0 vote (the approved motion [continue reading]
Metro has established an exploratory task force to study and identify the benefits, challenges and implications of a fareless system, we want to hear from you. To provide your feedback and for a chance to win a $100 Visa card, please take this short survey! The deadline for taking the survey is 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12. [continue reading]
