Should Raleigh charge people to ride the bus again? The transit authority thinks so.

Authority member Jennifer Truman, who made fare-free buses part of her platform in an unsuccessful run for a seat on the City Council this fall, was one of two who voted against reinstating fares. Truman said the board should wait to see what a proposed budget for next year would look like with and without fares and then make a case to the council to find the money elsewhere. “I think this goes beyond people who need free fares,” Truman told fellow authority members Thursday. “This is a statement of the priority of how we want people to move around the city. I think as a transit authority that we should want people to be able to have easy access to the bus.”

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