Free transit pilots are popping up around the world as the pandemic rages on — and so are heated debates about whether they'll stymie efforts to deliver the high-quality service.
Transit agencies can move from a policing model that seeks to detain, arrest, and imprison people to a system that carefully considers accessibility, affordability, mental health, public health, reentry, safety, and healing. Here's how.
Even after COVID-19, the governor and MTA doubled down on hiring more cops for the subway. Will a popular movement open a debate about the control of public space?