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Metro now plans to keep base fares at $1.75, and to continue to provide free transfers

"They [Metro] want to turn around and make transit more expensive and difficult for riders"

Grassroots volunteers are making progress in their campaign to reverse Cleveland's transit death spiral. But the fight's far from over.

In 2018, Metro is planning to eliminate paper transfers, tokens, and day passes - and to increase TAP card costs from $1 to $2

Here are tidbits and some updates on transportation happenings in our region.

Today, Chicago transit riders are seeing their first fare hike in four years. Though the base fare is unchanged, multi-ride passes are up, including fares for seniors and the disabled.

Transit fares have been ballooning across the country in recent years; if you live in a city that hasn't raised prices and cut service, consider yourself lucky.

For months, the Bus Rider's Union and their allies have held their powder when it comes to the 30/10 proposal which would accelerate 12 transit projects funded in the Measure R transit tax so that they would be built in the next decade instead of the next thirty years.  However, now the BRU and their ally Transit Riders for Public Transit (TRPT) are airing their concerns over the transit proposal.  Their chief concerns, that by accelerating these rail projects that Metro would be forced to raise fares even more quickly than currently planned in the Long Range Transportation Plan and that by spending Measure R funds quickly they will lose the ability to use those funds towards bus expansion.

Yesterday, the Metro Board of Directors met for a special meeting to discuss and pass the 2011 Budget.  The meeting only took a couple of hours, which compared to the marathon meetings of past years isn't that long.  See what happens when you hold these meetings when the Mayor is out of town?

Yesterday, the Bus Riders Union rallied in front of City Hall with representatives from CalPIRG, the Los Angeles County Bike Coalition, the National Resources Defense Council, the Clean Air Coalition and Transportation for America Campaign as part of a day of activism against fare increases and service cuts for transit agencies around the country.  Their event was mirrored in ten other cities around the country as activists nationwide spurred their legislators to provide relief to the nation's struggling transit agencies.  As you would expect, the BRU and their allies focused their fire at Metro's planned fare increases that are on deck for July and repeated their demand that the agency hold a new hearing on the hikes and the nearly 400,000 hours of service cuts.  Hearings on the changes were held years ago as part of a "fare restructuring" proposal that was supposed to raise the fares last year.  Those increases were delayed with the passage of Measure R.