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What if free transit was included in your rent?


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What if instead of a dog grooming station or a cable TV subscription, your landlord or condo association provided you with free transportation? John's guest is Molly Burns-Hansen from Move Minnesota, who is seeking out tenants, landlords, condo associations, and neighborhood groups in order to sign buildings up for Metro Transit's residential transit pass program. It's just $14 per month to provide an unlimited ride transit pass to every unit in a building (or several buildings, with a minimum of 10 units per contract). We talk about how expensive and stressful car ownership is -- and how surprisingly cheap it is to provide transit. Molly has some early data on the program and how satisfied residents who've received the transit passes have been. We go off on tangents: Molly talks about how people with disabilities are disproportionately reliant on transit and expresses irritation that the "disabled" conversation has been hijacked to argue against transit improvements on Hennepin Avenue. John explains his philosophy that transit is freedom, how confused he is by Metro Transit's "downtown fare zone," attempts to interpret Molly's dream about Michael Rainville and the state of Ohio, and goes off on a tangent about how the pretend environmentalists suing to stop the city's 2040 Plan are the equivalent of climate deniers.

If you have interest in this transit pass program -- as a resident, building manager or otherwise -- contact Molly by email: [email protected]

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