Metro estimated it is losing $27 million a year that was obtained from student ridership before the fareless pass went into effect, Deming explained. It costs each K-12 district $3 per student, while community colleges pay $7 per student. Metro is in the process of adding 20 new K-12 districts and two new community colleges - Glendale, and Mount San Antonio in Walnut, she said. “The program has been gaining in popularity,” she said. With the new school year just underway, Deming believes the numbers will grow as more school districts learn about the program. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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The LAUSD and LA Metro offers students the GoPass program, a free TAP card that gives all K-12 students in LA County free bus and train rides. Students exit the G Line (Orange Line) LA Metro bus near Birmingham Community Charter High School Tuesday, August 16, 2022. Since students were offered free passes, the agency has seen 5,000 registrations per week, she said. Metro’s Devon Deming, deputy executive officer for the Fareless System Initiative. Birmingham Community Charter High School’s high usage is followed by Fairfax High School, Bell Senior High School, Santa Monica High School and Paramount High School, according to L.A. The charter school, focused on college prep, has the most students using Metro’s GoPass program of any K-12 school in Los Angeles County.
Metro program offering K-12 and community college students unlimited free rides on all its public buses, light rail trains and subways for the entire school year.īecause so many of the charter school students come from different parts of Southern California and the San Fernando Valley, and because there’s a bus stop close by, the public bus has become a popular method for Birmingham students to go back to school.
The students are part of an expanding L.A. Students piled off the G Line (formerly Orange Line) bus at the Balboa Boulevard station early Tuesday morning, backpacks swaying, chitchat lingering in the air, as they made the short walk to Birmingham Community Charter High School in Lake Balboa.
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