The free bus push is spreading. The funding gap is growing. Cities across America are promoting fare-free bus service as a way to ease household costs and improve access to public transit. At the same ...

One Mamdani’s big campaign promises, that everyone in the city would be able to ride “free” buses, is reportedly now on pause.

Riders board the Bx18 in the Bronx, one of five bus lines in New York City that were free last year under a temporary pilot program supported by state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic ...

When a bus ride in Connecticut was free, Jonathan Parrilla found himself hopping on public transit in Bridgeport. But he stopped taking the bus a year ago, when the state ended a year-long free fare ...

Older and disabled bus users are staying away from buses after the pandemic and experts are not sure why. While fare paying passengers are slowly returning to public transport, those entitled to ...