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Action highlights unequal impact of bus fares


THUNDER BAY – Few people would accept paying $10 or $20 for a bus trip across town, but Paul Berger says those numbers give an idea of the true impact Thunder Bay’s $3 transit fare has on people living on low incomes.
Berger joined a group of anti-poverty advocates seeking to dramatize the toll bus fare takes on the most vulnerable at the city hall transit hub Friday.
Their proportional fare bus ride  was part of a larger campaign to make transit free, spearheaded by Poverty Free Thunder Bay and supported by a number of local organizations.
Berger, a professor at Lakehead University, forked over $30 for his bus trip – a portion of his income equivalent to $3 for someone on the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), the group calculated. ....

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