Wu seeks to expand free-bus pilot to two more lines over two more years

Mayor Wu said contiguous she volition inquire the City Council to walk $8 cardinal successful incoming national funds to destruct fares connected the 23, 28 and 29 autobus lines implicit the adjacent 2 years.

The 28 is already escaped to riders done the extremity of the twelvemonth nether a aviator launched earlier this twelvemonth by acting Mayor Kim Janey.

According to the mayor's office:

While wide autobus and subway ridership is astatine 53 percent of pre-pandemic weekday ridership, the escaped 28 autobus saw ridership surge to 92% of pre-pandemic levels, making it the astir fashionable successful the system.

The 23 Bus enactment (Ashmont to Dorchester Center, Grove Hall & Ruggles) the 28 Bus enactment (Mattapan Square, up Blue Hill Ave, to Nubian Square & Ruggles) and the 29 Bus enactment (Mattapan Square, up Blue Hill Ave, to Jackson Square) each serves a divers ridership, and each intersects with Blue Hill Ave, which has been identified by Livable Streets Alliance arsenic 1 of the corridors that should beryllium prioritized for improvements to summation reliability and boost ridership.

In tweets, Wu adds:

The two-year play volition let america to measurement the benefits of this program, guarantee each Boston nonmigratory hears astir it & springiness riders the accidental to integrate riding the autobus into their day-to-day routines.

Most importantly, these findings volition assistance america physique determination & state-level momentum to combat for a afloat fare-free nationalist proscription system. More to come!