The governor’s budget assumes UTA’s “fare subsidy partners,” organizations such as the University of Utah, Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University, which provide free passes to their students, and large private employers who offer transit passes to their employees, would continue paying to cover another $13.1 million. For another, $25 million wouldn’t make up for the estimated $35 million UTA says it collects on fares in a year - which makes up about 10% of its total budget. Well … don’t cut up those transit passes, yet.įor one thing, state lawmakers, at least the Republican leaders, aren’t impressed with the idea. “Someday we will have free fare forever.” “That’s a huge development for the state of Utah,” Mendenhall said. It derailed without much debate.īut Salt Lake Mayor Erin Mendenhall, who was a catalyst for “free fare February,” a monthlong pilot program last year, mentioned the governor’s proposal in her annual state of the city address last week. Joel Briscoe, D-Salt Lake City, was filed in the 2022 legislative session. Spencer Cox’s plan to spend $25 million to launch a yearlong free-fare pilot project on the Utah Transit Authority’s trains and buses got people’s attention. It may have been way back on of his annual budget proposal, but Gov.
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