Another Group That Would Benefit from Free Transit: Bus Drivers

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has launched a pilot project that has eliminated fares on Boston’s busiest bus route, Route 28, which connects Ruggles subway station in Roxbury with Mattapan via Nubian (formerly Dudley) Square and Blue Hiil Avenue through Dorchester. Writing in The Boston Globe, columnist Abdallah Fayyad urges city and MBTA officials to study not only the effect of free fares on ridership but also their effect on the bus drivers.