{"id":14452,"date":"2019-01-15T16:19:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=14452"},"modified":"2023-06-08T21:29:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T21:29:48","slug":"fare-free-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/news\/2019\/01\/15\/fare-free-transit","title":{"rendered":"David Gordon makes the case for fare-free transit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/fare-free-transit.jpg\" alt=\"fare free transit\" class=\"wp-image-24847\"><\/figure>\n\n<p>IAS alum David Gordon is a policy analyst at Nickerson &amp; Associates, a consulting firm in downtown Seattle, focusing on transportation issues. Currently, Gordon is working on a proposal with Dr. Peter Nickerson advocating for fare-free transit across King County with the ultimate goal of getting an initiative on the 2019 ballot.<\/p>\n\n<p>In December, Gordon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theurbanist.org\/2018\/12\/27\/the-case-for-making-transit-free-and-how-to-pay-for-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made the case for free transit<\/a> as a guest contributor to The Urbanist. In his article Gordon argues, &ldquo;A fare-free system can quickly and significantly allow low-income people to have more disposable income, reduce traffic congestion by getting more commuters on buses, and reduce the regressive nature of our high sales taxes.&rdquo; While he expects plenty of well-funded opposition, Gordon&rsquo;s proposal takes an equitable lens, asking employers and wealthy people to bear the brunt of the taxes.<\/p>\n\n<p>Gordon graduated from UW Bothell with an M.A. in <a href=\"\/policy-studies\">Policy Studies<\/a> (&rsquo;16) and B.A. in <a href=\"\/law-economics-public-policy#page=page-1\">Law, Economics &amp; Public Policy<\/a> (&rsquo;14). Although he knew the Policy Studies program was interdisciplinary, Gordon admits, &ldquo;I had no idea that my first job would utilize all of the skills I built while at UW Bothell to address social inequalities here in town.  My education prepared me for all that I&rsquo;m bound to experience in this position.&rdquo;  When Gordon isn&rsquo;t taking the long public transit commute to Seattle or working to influence state legislators, you can find him at Toastmasters meetings where he is president of his Mill Creek club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAS alum David Gordon is a policy analyst at Nickerson &amp; Associates, a consulting firm in downtown Seattle, focusing on transportation issues. Currently, Gordon is working on a proposal with Dr. Peter Nickerson advocating for fare-free transit across King County with the ultimate goal of getting an initiative on the 2019 ballot. In December, Gordon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theurbanist.org\/2018\/12\/27\/the-case-for-making-transit-free-and-how-to-pay-for-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made the case for free transit<\/a> as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_is_archived":false,"_archived_contact_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"school":[],"class_list":["post-14452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-policy-studies"],"acf":{"related_links":{"toggle_visibility":false,"link_1":null,"link_2":null,"link_3":null,"link_4":null,"link_5":null},"highlight_box":{"toggle_visibility":false,"title":"","content":"","button":null,"button_style":"angled-purple-button","button_screen_reader_text":""},"contact_type_1":{"toggle_visibility":true,"contact_title":"Contact Type","email":"sample@uwb.edu","phone":"(206) 999-9999","box":"Box 358500","address_line_1":"18115 Campus Way NE","address_line_2":"Bothell, WA 98011-8246","location":""},"contact_type_2":{"toggle_visibility":false,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"social_media":{"toggle_visibility":false,"facebook_url":"","instagram_url":"","linkedin_url":"","twitter_url":"","youtube_url":""},"blog_archive_sidebar_visibility":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>David Gordon makes the case for fare-free transit - School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; Sciences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/news\/2019\/01\/15\/fare-free-transit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"David Gordon makes the case for fare-free transit - School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; Sciences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"IAS alum David Gordon is a policy analyst at Nickerson &amp; Associates, a consulting firm in downtown Seattle, focusing on transportation issues. 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