didn’t plummet nearly as much as other systems’ during the pandemic. Fare collection restarted last week after two unprecedented years in which transit agencies learned a lot about how people moved (or didn’t) around their cities, and now Metro is using some of this information to game out improvements and pilot other free- and reduced-fare programs.Įven without precise information, the numbers tell us something. This means the agency has inadvertently been conducting what may be the biggest free-transit experiment in U.S. While the agency doesn’t know exactly how many people were riding fare-free buses during this time - because fare collection is one of the ways to track ridership - a spokesperson says that from April 2020 to December 2021, it’s safe to say Metro’s buses provided about 281 million fare-free boardings. Outside of the initial stay-at-home order in the spring of 2020, Metro’s ridership never dipped below 50 percent of before-times ridership, with buses eventually recovering to within 10 to 15 percent of pre-pandemic numbers. For the next 22 months, Metro waived fares for anyone who wanted to keep riding its buses, anywhere they wanted to go (as long as they wore a mask, of course). In March 2020, Los Angeles’ public-transit agency, Metro, stopped collecting fares on its buses as a COVID-19 safety precaution. He can be heard weekly on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories.Photo: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club. In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S.
Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press. He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
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