
In October 2021, the Metro board approved a fareless TAP card for participating school districts to hand out to all their students. “We are really helping the students, so they can focus on doing their school work instead of worrying about how to get to school,” she said. The top three community colleges using the program, from first to third, are Santa Monica College, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles City College, she said. Metro’s Devon Deming, deputy executive officer for the Fareless System Initiative. Birmingham Community Charter High School’s high usage is followed by Fairfax High School, Bell Senior High School, Santa Monica High School and Paramount High School, according to L.A. The charter school, focused on college prep, has the most students using Metro’s GoPass program of any K-12 school in Los Angeles County. Metro program offering K-12 and community college students unlimited free rides on all its public buses, light rail trains and subways for the entire school year.īecause so many of the charter school students come from different parts of Southern California and the San Fernando Valley, and because there’s a bus stop close by, the public bus has become a popular method for Birmingham students to go back to school. The students are part of an expanding L.A.

Students piled off the G Line (formerly Orange Line) bus at the Balboa Boulevard station early Tuesday morning, backpacks swaying, chitchat lingering in the air, as they made the short walk to Birmingham Community Charter High School in Lake Balboa.
