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‘No Way We were Going to Ask for Half a Billion Dollars…’

By peachwire / October 9, 2021
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Dan Balaban

Unlike other major transit agencies in the U.S., which have spent hundreds of millions of dollars replacing or upgrading their fare-collection systems, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has taken a different approach.

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