“With a Martin Luther King Jr. mural in the background, the #FairFares Coalition kicked off its drive to change Port Authority’s fare structure with a rally in Wilkinsburg on Tuesday morning.
The coalition — which includes Pittsburghers for Public Transit, the Thomas Merton Society, Casa San Jose, Just Harvest and the Alliance for Police Accountability — believes the transit system discriminates against low-income riders. That’s because cash customers who can’t afford weekly or monthly passes pay higher fares and can’t buy transfers that are available to prepaid ConnectCard users….”
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