Acting Mayor Kim Janey announced today that, yes, that free Rte. 28 service she prematurely announced in May is really happening this time. Starts Aug. 29 and runs for three months as a pilot on the entire route, from Mattapan Square to Ruggles via Nubian Square.
The city is spending $500,000 on the pilot on the route, one of the busiest in the T system.
The Boston Transportation Department and the MBTA will jointly manage the pilot program, making any adjustments as necessary. To evaluate the pilot, the agencies will be collecting operational data and conducting rider surveys. Key metrics relative to the goals of the initiative include travel time impacts, on-time reliability, rider experience, and ridership.
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Free bus service
By StillFromDorchester
Mon, 07/26/2021 - 10:54am
Costs $500,000 to implement it, after that it will be totally free ?
free to the end user
By berkleealum
Mon, 07/26/2021 - 11:16am
…but you knew that. please though, feel free to wax pedantic about taxation and generational debt under my post.
Which post?
By StillFromDorchester
Mon, 07/26/2021 - 11:21am
Is that?
pedantry of another kind
By berkleealum
Mon, 07/26/2021 - 11:24am
impressive! under my comment*
Are you upset at my opinion on Government spending
By StillFromDorchester
Mon, 07/26/2021 - 11:29am
And double speak?
I wasnt being pedantic, I was posting my thoughts. You are free to disagree, and free as in actually free.
This is not double-speak.
By CH
Mon, 07/26/2021 - 1:35pm
This is not double-speak. "Free" obviously means the rider doesn't pay, not that nobody pays. Everything costs something and also everybody knows that.
If we're using your argument
By fungwah
Mon, 07/26/2021 - 4:41pm
then its not actually free, since posting is costing Adam Gaffin some amount of server fees (which hopefully he's making up for via donations and ads). Everything has a cost; most adults are smart enough to realize that "someone somewhere has to pay for this" isn't actually an argument on its own.
It wasnt an argument
By StillFromDorchester
Tue, 07/27/2021 - 8:00am
It was an observation
As a Boston taxpayer, I think
By CH
Mon, 07/26/2021 - 1:34pm
As a Boston taxpayer, I think this is a great use of city funds and we should do much more of it. This is how I want my money to be spent.
Hey look, I expressed my opinion clearly and directly instead of using sarcasm!
Good Idea
By anon
Mon, 07/26/2021 - 3:19pm
But I wondering if the riders of the 23 and 22 bus routes will wonder why they are being kicked off their buses for failure to pay.
And 14, and 29
By Ron Newman
Tue, 07/27/2021 - 11:30am
both of which also overlap the 28 for significant distances.
Also, people who transfer from the 28 to the subway, or vice versa, will still pay the same fare as before. The beneficiaries are the people who take *only* this bus and don't transfer to or from anything else at either end.
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