No fare! Free bus rides raise questions of fairness, viability. ...Middle East

A bus picks up passengers in downtown Richmond near the Virginia Capitol. Richmond is one of the few areas to fully recover transit ridership last year after pandemic drops. Tim Henderson/StatelineRICHMOND, Va. — Free bus rides have made life easier for Melvin Wilson, a 28-year-old Richmond resident who was on his way to his warehouse job on a recent morning. His only worry is that fares, which once ate up $60 or more of his monthly pay, might come back and go even higher, making it harder for him to afford to get to work. “It could throw a lot of people like me out of their comfort zone. I think people would lose their jobs over this, especially if it happened too fast,” said Wilson, who wa

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