Public transit difficulties a major barrier to youth education

What we really want now is for @metrolosangeles to do a better job of serving our young people too. Our students have had enough obstacles in their lives keeping them from graduating high school; we don't need public transit to be another one. 16/16 [End Thread]

— YouthBuild Charter (@YBCharter) September 18, 2019

Streetsblog, after long last, promotes #freetransit advocacy

Compared to public transportation, a single car throws vastly more carbon into the atmosphere, fits fewer people, and isolates us from our communities. Like any other essential program, say healthcare or college, we need free public transportation. Until transit is free, every city without it will be plagued by the dominance of cars – and car companies – which destroy an environment already under siege. 

As a young person, and a lifelong Los Angeles resident, it’s not just a choice between free and priced, it’s a choice between growing up in a city that is accessible to all and a city where one of our biggest infrastructure projects is more of a luxury than a basic entitlement. No matter how low the cost, someone always gets left on the margins, as with any means-tested policy or other anti-poverty measure that isn’t universal. 

So let’s make public transit fare-free. It’s a public good, and all of us who constitute the public should be able to use it.

https://la.streetsblog.org/2019/09/13/youth-perspectives-on-transportation-free-public-transit-for-a-more-just-equitable-and-sustainable-urban-l-a/