Kansas City was the first major city to implement free bus fares in 2020. | JLiu1596, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / Wikimedia Commons
The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority will start charging fares for bus rides in June, but riders who should qualify for continued free fares say they haven’t heard anything about how to get free rides, reports Savannah Hawley-Bates for KCUR.
According to Hawley-Bates, “KCUR spoke to multiple social service agencies whose clients rely on buses, and they say they haven’t heard anything from officials about what functionally free fare will look like.”…