Offer to work for a while for free or for your bus fare for a few months to test you out.
In March riots erupted in Zhushan village in Hunan after a bus fare was increased from seven yuan (about 90 American cents) to nine.
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Pulling back on federal spending now is equivalent to an unemployed worker refusing to go on job interviews in order to save on gas or bus fare.
Such payments typically cover little more than the bus fare to hospital, and the person who brokers the deal, whether the principal or local policeman, may take a cut.
The offer of the bus fare, an amount which most of the men could have saved up to pay for themselves, led to a 22-percentage-point increase in the probability of migration.
She stopped going because she did not have the money for the bus fare - and then concluded that officials should be the last people she should see if she wants to stay.
"What Dr. King and Roy Wilkins understood is that it doesn't matter if you have the right to sit at the front of the bus if you can't afford the bus fare, " he said.
In one case Mr Edwards said a pregnant woman had walked six miles from Clee Hill to Ludlow to pick up four days' worth of food because she could not afford the bus fare.
An experiment in rural Bangladesh provided men with the bus fare to Dhaka at the beginning of the lean season, the period between planting and the next harvest when there is little to do except sit around.
When my sister asked her why she was just standing there, she said she did not have enough to pay the bus fare - the last time she used public transport, she had paid 1.5m Zimbabwean dollars.
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Bear in mind also that before he got the job on my film, this young man had not a dime to his name, was wearing threadbare clothing, could not even afford bus fare to the auditions or the shoot, had no food to eat, and was one step from the streets.
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In recent years, the Thai government has launched policies such as higher wages for government officials and state-owned enterprises, tax rebates on purchase of first cars and first homes and subsidies on bus-fare and electricity.
If you get tired, you can bring your bike on the MBTA subway or bus for no additional fare.
Guernsey's Bus Users Group will meet on Saturday to discuss the proposed changes to the island's bus routes, timetables and fare structures.
Survivors at trial spoke of a harrowing early-morning ride, testifying that the low-fare Sky Express bus swerved from side to side and changed speeds erratically before careening off the interstate.
It's as if we've all spent years on the town with a bon vivant uncle buying us steaks and cigars and driving around in a Rolls-Royce Phantom, and suddenly the bon vivant uncle pulls over to the side of the road, starts freaking about gas prices, and hands you fare for the bus.
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Bus officials have stressed that the single fare has not risen for more than two years.
"Changes in the wider economy - including cuts by central and local government to things like concessionary fare reimbursement levels and the bus service operator's grant, have also taken their toll but despite this we do everything we can to keep fares as low as possible, " she added.
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Third, to the extent that the fees push commuters to switch from cars to mass transit, they will spread subway and bus costs over more users, thus helping to keep down fare increases.
Many students hastily packed their bags, and okada drivers charged twice the usual fare to take them to the motor park to get on a bus.
The new fare cards were so badly administered that a moratorium had to be declared on all bus fares.
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