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This year has been a challenging one for Boston’s transportation system, which has seen the long-awaited and much-delayed Green Line expansion, a month-long Orange Line closure, and a cutting federal safety report that cataloged the MBTA’s shortcomings.  But the city is also at the helm of the nation’s growing push for fare-free public transit. In March, newly-elected Mayor Michelle Wu – long a proponent of fare-free transit – announced that three of the city’s most-used bus lines would go fare-free as part of a two-year pilot program.  For our keynote session, Boston’s Chief of Streets, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, joins Next City to discuss whether this experiment is proving its worth as a strategy to meet the city’s climate, mobility and racial justice goals. And as other municipalities, including Washington, D.C., take the leap to provide free public transportation, he offers some advice for other city leaders considering joining

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