The City of Lawrence is set to begin a yearlong pilot program that will make city buses free to ride in 2023. All Lawrence Transit services will be free beginning Monday, Jan. 2, including the city’s regular fixed-route bus service, paratransit service, the Night Line and the new “microtransit” service, which will operate on Sundays, according to a city news release. The Fare Free Pilot Program is financially supported by increased federal transit funding. The program will be re-evaluated in Fall 2023 to determine the feasibility of extending the pilot. Microtransit, which will operate on Sundays when regular routes do not run, will operate similar to on-demand ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft, but utilize transit vehicles.
Source: LJWorld
