Public Transit Should Not Be Free
...except in specific circumstances
The City of Burlington is the most westerly of Toronto’s suburbs. Recently, elected officials there asked City staff to consider whether Burlington transit should stop charging fares.
The City is following a trend. In the past few years, many cities and towns in North America have experimented with fare-free transit. Elsewhere in Canada, smaller places …
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