Free rides meet hard choices

On paper, the Tucson City Council is set to spend its Wednesday afternoon study session talking about plans to make public buses safer.

Friend to friend? This conversation is also about fare-free transit.

The city budget includes funding to keep the buses free through the rest of the fiscal year, but the resources needed to properly address violence on buses and at bus stops will easily cost millions of dollars, on top of the $1.5 million the city already spends on bus security…

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