Some California campuses are trying to lower college costs with free transit. Transit expenses are one part of the high cost of college pushing many low-income students out of the state’s higher education systems.
“Although my family has cars, they need them for work,” she said. “Having to purchase a car or live on campus is not something I can afford.”
“At the beginning, there were a couple of staff members who were somewhat skeptical,” he said. “Little by little we were able to get buy-in from the staff. And now we’re at the point where they expect it every year.” “We set the [U-Pass] program up so that very intentionally, every school that participates, or every school district that participates, they have to pay the cost sharing for every student for the sole purpose that we want the passes to be available to every student for equity reasons,” said Devon Deming, deputy executive officer of LA Metro’s Fareless Systems Initiative.
which would have created the Youth Transit Pass Pilot Program to give free passes to K-12 and college students in California., Newsom cited a lack of funding in the state budget for the program’s $115 million annual cost.
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