No Fare Hike

All the rest have 31: How the MTA snuck another fare increase on us

In selling new bus passes that are only good for 30 days, instead of
the old 31 days, MTA has once again limited our mobility and forced us
to pay more for less."With this new policy I can no longer get my child to school on the last day of the month because MTA found a way to make low-income families pay them more money." A single mother speaks out on the impact of the new policy.

Our letter to the MTA re: Subway to the Sea

by Esperanza Martinez

Here is a letter that Barbara and I at the BRU sent to the MTA last week on October 19th. We sent this to MTA as part of the formal public comment process on the Westside Subway Extension. Also known as the "subway to the sea," Mayor Villaraigosa's pet boondoggle project could have a $9 billion price tag that could result in massive civil rights violations of bus riders in particular, the potential disparate impact on hundreds of thousands of low income people of color who ride the bus as the sole or primary means of transportation.

Don't get caught without BRU Hunger Fast for Justice Flyers!

by Gabriel Strachota

Following in the tradition of civil rights heroines of generations past, 5 members of the Bus Riders begin a Hunger Fast for Justice on Thursday, May 20 to protest MTA's fare increases and service cuts.

Bus Riders Union Begins Fast Against Proposed MTA Fare Increase

by Gabriel Strachota

BRU Fast Sparked as MTA Annual Budget Again Approaches $4 Billion, Yet Proposes Double Attack on Bus Riders with Fare increase and Bus Service Cuts Set for July 1st

05/20/2010

Thursday, May 20, 2010 (11 am - Los Angeles, CA) The Bus Riders Union will kick off a Hunger Fast for Justice to urge MTA Board to reject the proposed 2010 fare increase and 380,000 hour set to be cut

L.A. bus, rail fares may increase

by Gabriel Strachota

By Dan Weikel, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, April 20, 2010

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is proposing fare hikes for the first time in two years to offset a $204-million budget gap. The Bus Riders Union says the agency has other options.

Amid the worst economic downturn since World War II, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning to increase fares for the first time in two years to help offset a $204-million gap in its operating budget for buses and rail systems.

The proposed fare hike, which will go into effect July 1, is opposed by the Bus Riders Union, which protested the planned increase Tuesday morning outside the MTA headquarters in downtown Los Angeles...

LAT's Dan Weikel reports on MTA fare hikes