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Fare​-​Free Transit

by Bob A. Feldman

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A folk song from 2022 explaining why MBTA should also establish a fare-free public transit system for riders in Boston, Massachusetts in 2022.

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You can ride all buses free in Kansas City
You can ride all buses free in Olympia
You can ride all buses free in Albuquerque
But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.
Outbound trolleys were once fare-free inBoston
And for Philly elders, the subway is fare-free
It's fare-free for all riders in Estonia
But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.
They have a billion dollars to spend
For new fare collection machines
Yet they claim the T can't afford to be fare-free
While paying T managers six-figure salaries.

You can ride all buses free in Lowell
You can ride all buses free in Lawrence
You can ride all buses free in Chapel Hill
But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.
You can ride all transit free in Luxembourg
And for Miami elders buses are fare-free
Elders ride free in Lebanon, Pennsylvania
But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.
They have millions of dollars to spend
To pay off "The Big Dig" debt
And they have 30 million dollars to spend
For new stations by BU's campus.

All ride for free in Corvalis, Oregon
And in campus towns like Ann Arbor
And also in Boulder and Denver
But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.
In France, it's fare-free in Dunkirk
And some transit is fare-free in Baltimore
All elderly ride fare-free in Scotland
But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.
They have a billion dollars to spend
On new fare collection machines
Yet they claim the T can't afford to be fare-free
While paying T managers six-figure salaries.

You can ride all buses fare-free in Malta
And in Wales it's free for elderly
You can ride all buses free in Hasselt, Belgium
But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.
Yes, you can ride all buses free in Kansas City
You can ride all buses free in Olympia
You can ride all buses free in Albuquerque
But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.

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released October 12, 2022

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Bob A. Feldman has written public domain protest and biographical folk songs on a non-commercial basis in the Guthrie-Ochs-MacColl-Moore tradition for many years. He also has written a lot of public domain love songs.

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