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Monday, February 24, 2020

Free public transit for K-12 in LA, passed Assembly unanimously #AB1350

“I live 12 miles from the ocean, and I have young people in my neighborhood who have never been to the beach,” she [Gonzalez] said.

...Kathryn Phillips, director of Sierra Club California, agrees. She says the bill would reduce localized air pollution as well as greenhouse gas emissions because fewer people would drive their kids to school.
“If you’ve ever gone by a school, you know that it can get pretty crowded in the morning — there’s a lot of idling, and idling creates a lot of pollution,” Phillips said. “The (programs) that work the most are when you just do an across the board, every kid, every student gets free transit.”
https://calmatters.org/transportation/2020/02/free-transit-kids-california-climate-change/ 

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