{"id":35390,"date":"2024-07-12T03:26:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T07:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=35390"},"modified":"2024-07-12T03:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T07:26:56","slug":"uncharted-territory-first-bay-area-city-makes-bus-fare-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=35390","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Uncharted territory&#8217;: First Bay Area city makes bus fare free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/rawImage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"202\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The program is launched as a party of the city&#8217;s climate action emergency framework.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/petaluma-free-bus-services-19563687.php\">&#8216;Uncharted territory&#8217;: First Bay Area city makes bus fare free<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Previously, bus fees yielded about $162,000 each year, which was <em><strong>less than 10% of Petaluma\u2019s transit budget<\/strong><\/em>. To make bus services free, the city allocated $180,000 from the general fund, which is more than it predicts will be necessary, according to Arce.<br><br>Free bus fare and banning new gas stations are not the only items in Petaluma\u2019s climate action plan. This fall, the city plans to launch a microtransit program for an on-demand bus service, and it aims to electrify its bus fleet by 2030.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>for context, Petaluma is ~ same size as Peterborough, per Wikipedia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Petaluma is a city in Sonoma County, California, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Its population was 59,776 according to the 2020 census.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The program is launched as a party of the city&#8217;s climate action&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[716,389],"class_list":["post-35390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-california","tag-public-transit","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35393,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35390\/revisions\/35393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}