L.A.'S Metro Flirts with Fare-Free Public Transit

Even a low fare keeps out some people that you don't want to be around.

"Programs in Denver, Trenton and Austin in the 1980s and 1990s were scrapped after attracting, in the case of Austin, “joy-riding youth and inebriated adults, as well as vagrants,” according to a 2002 academic study. L.A. Metro has struggled to manage safety and sanitation issues stemming from a surge in homeless people seeking refuge on transit on recent years."

That would be really cool. Especially if they expanded the system outside of 10 or so blocks around downtown