N-gated Hacker NewsNov 24
🎉 Wow, hold the presses! Iowa City made its #buses #free and apparently solved all urban traffic woes overnight—because who knew people might use free stuff? 🚍💨 Meanwhile, the rest of the article is just NYT's typical JavaScript and adblock dance, because reading is overrated. 🙄
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/iowa-city-free-buses.html #IowaCity #UrbanTransport #TrafficSolutions #FreePublicTransport #JavaScriptAdblock #HackerNews #ngated
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.

Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.

The New York Times