TAKE ACTION! Thursday April 25 @10am: Let's Make Metro's student GoPass Program Permanent!

Mayor Karen Bass and members of the LA Metro Board want to make Metro's GoPass – the Anywhere, Anytime Student Transit Pass program - PERMANENT!

We need you to show up on Thursday April 25th at 10:00 a.m. at One Gateway Plaza (3rd Floor) for the Metro Board to say YES to Item 22: the Bridge to Farelessness Motion.
Each speaker gets 1 minute!

Can’t make it in person? You can call in and make public comment
(TALKING POINTS BELOW):

Dial-in: 202-735-3323 and enter
English Access Code: 5647249#
Spanish Access Code: 7292892#
Public comment will be taken as the Board takes up each item.
To give public comment on an item, enter #2 (pound-two) when prompted.

And you can still email the Board below!!

TALKING POINTS

  • Share your name, affiliation, and personal story
  • I support Item 22: the Bridge to Farelessness Motion
  • GoPass is key to Metro’s ambition to build transit ridership to pre-pandemic levels
  • It is central to regional efforts to reduce automobile travel, traffic, and emissions
  • GoPass is an immediate and tangible benefit to struggling K-12/community college students
  • When you give a pass to a student, they ride!
  • Fare programs alleviate poverty, increase social mobility, and improve health
  • Metro’s GoPass program has been a phenomenal success. In November 2023, Metro’s GoPass pilot program saw a 28 percent increase in one year and just surpassed 35 million rides!
  • Metro’s GoPass Program a permanent program and include it in the Metro budget...forever. 

WANT MORE BACKGROUND?

Move LA has been working for 15 years to create “insurance-like” transit discount programs – where all students pay a little, and all students get a pass - at transit agencies across California for students at K-12 institutions, community colleges, and our state’s universities. These programs have been proven to create a culture of ridership immediately, reduce VMT, and cut greenhouse gas emissions. But beyond that, the social welfare benefits bring value—from reducing absenteeism at K-12 schools to increasing graduation rates at community colleges to reducing poverty and homelessness, these programs are proven to work…and work quickly.

CLICK HERE to read a brief history of Move LA’s work to expand access to public transit for students.