Free bus rides on tap for Fort Worth, Richland Hills residents

by PegNews wire

Riders such as this may be why public transportation isn't more popular.

Residents of Fort Worth and Richland Hills, Thursday is your lucky day: The T will offer free bus rides all day long as part of the third annual Dump the Pump Day. Notice that said "bus rides" -- Trinity Railway Express users will still have to pony up the dough.

Hmm, seems like a good idea to get people more interested in public transportation during these hard times. Wonder why another area mass transit organization isn't offering the same thing?

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Robert Brooks, says:

Why isn't DART offering a free fare day? Probably because the last time DART did that was during the ill-fated Dallas Cowboys Superbowl parade, several years ago. Rightly or wrongly, many blamed the free transportation for the violent fiasco that followed. If I recall correctly, DART said they'd never do that again.

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Pavel Lishin, says:

I wasn't really in the habit of reading the news back then - do you have a link to the story? I'm too lazy to Google for it.

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Teresa Gubbins, says:

man what a baby. i forgot about that <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0D7173AF933A25751C0A965958260">fracas</a>; i worked downtown at the time. i think i recall being amused, even though 18 were injured and all that