Rosa Parks honored with free transit rides on Thursday February 04 2021
TriMet has declared Feb. 4 to be Rosa Parks Equity Day and all regional bus, train and streetcar rides are free.
All rides on TriMet are free Thursday, Feb. 4, in honor of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
Fares will not be collected on buses, MAX, WES or LIFT during the first annual Rosa Parks Equity Day. Transit partners Portland Streetcar and C-TRAN are joining the regional transit agency and not collecting fares.
Rosa Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She is best known for refusing to give up a seat on a bus reserved for white people on Dec. 1, 1955, in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. That led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and resulted in a United States Supreme Court decision that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Just over a year after Parks act of defiance, city officials were ordered to desegregate Montgomery s buses and Rosa Parks sealed her place in U.S. history.