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# Looking for a free ride
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/looking-for-a-free-ride-editor/
- Published: 2007-04-14T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:34:39.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Susan Belonis Santa Monica*

I would like our environmentally conscious City Council to consider ways to offer free bus service in Santa Monica (“A rough ride for Council,” April 12). This would encourage bus ridership. It would significantly decrease the auto emission pollution, alleviate traffic congestion and parking shortages, increase daily communication between residents and help ease global warming.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 14, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/041407.pdf?ref=smdp.com)