What If All Your Shared Transportation Trips Were Free For A Year?

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An innovative new pilot will give Pittsburgh residents free rides on all the shared transportation networks their city has to offer — and, possibly for the first time in the history of "universal basic mobility" pilots, they'll be able to access them all on a single platform.

Earlier this month, the City of Bridges announced that it would partner with Pittsburgh Regional Transit, POGOH bikeshare, and scooter company Spin to provide 50 low-income residents with a full year of nearly unlimited free rides across all those modes, as well as monthly credits form car-sharing outfit Zipcar.

Here's what the city hopes to learn about how its residents get around when cost isn't a factor, and green modes are as easy to use as grabbing a set of car keys.

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