WORCESTER - Advocates for a fare-free Worcester bus system filled the City Council chamber Monday night to make their case.

WORCESTER — Worcester Regional Transit Authority officials say the system will not go fare-free this fiscal year.

WORCESTER - Advocates call it a “win-win-win,” an economic development tool and an “absolute game changer.”

We celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. Like Dr. King, I too have a dream. Someday I want my neighborhood, and all neighborhoods in Worcester, to experience and be a part of the current “Worcester Renaissance.”

Would you be in favor of the WRTA going fare-free? That is the question asked by the Worcester Free Fare Task Force in August and September of 2019 and now being being proposed for public hearings by City Counsilor Gary Rosen (chair of the Public Service and Transportation Committee).

WORCESTER - The Worcester Regional Research Bureau has taken steps to encourage the public to weigh in on the walkability of their neighborhoods.

It’s been roughly eight months since the Worcester Regional Research Bureau broached the idea of a fare-free bus system for the Worcester Regional Transit Authority, but not much has happened at City Hall to follow up.

WORCESTER - With one week to go before the municipal election, the 13 at-large City Council candidates gathered at Mechanics Hall Monday night to debate a wide-range of issues facing the city.

Nearly eight months after it officially began with the first availability of nomination papers, the 2019 municipal election season is heading into the home stretch.

WORCESTER – The two candidates vying for the District 5 City Council seat squared off in a spirited 40-minute debate Thursday night that brought out sharp differences between them.