The Struggle for a Nickel Fare
Newly annexed residents demand transit equity from the Tacoma Railway and Power Company.
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Hunt's Prairie has been voted into the city by the people and duly received by the city council, but the T.R.P. is refusing to give the residents of the new addition 5 cent fare. The people today complained to Mayor Linck concerning it. They declare they were entitled to the 5 cent fare and they want it. Technically, however, it will probably be necessary to publish the ordinance 10 days before the lower fare be in effect.
“They declare they were entitled to the 5 cent fare and they want it.”
Transit equity remains a central concern in modern Tacoma, as neighborhoods annexed into the city often struggle to gain the same level of service and fare parity as the historic core.
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