The Kansas City city council is considering making group public transit benefit plans a requirement for companies to get economic development incentives.
"UMKC —All the students have through their student ID a bus pass. That actually where this idea started," says transit chair Russ Johnson.
Johnson says companies with more than 100 employees would have to provide employee bus passes to get the incentives. The cost would be up to 0.1 percent of company payroll.
The plan, he says, would help support public transit, thereby boosting economic development.
A council committee will discuss the idea in two weeks. The chamber of commerce and civic council have already come out against it.
