Operation Lincoln is a non violent

Nonviolence

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 form of civil disobedience

Civil disobedience

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 regarding any transit systems fare hike. Coined in 2011 after the Capital Metropolitan Transit Authority started charging fares for Disability Fare Card Holders and Senior Citizens, it involves the act of going to a check cashing establishments, gas stations, bank

Bank

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s, grocery store

Grocery store

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s or financial institution

Financial institution

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s and converting paper money into rolls of pennies

Penny

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. The low denomination coins will be used to pay the fare.

The protestor will hop on board the bus

Bus

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, tap their Disability Fare Card or Reduced Fare Card (In many jurisdictions show the Bus Driver the Reduced Fare Card) open up the roll of pennies when boarding and putting as many pennies in as possible until the bus driver

Bus driver

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 says that fare is good enough don't worry about it and lets you board or until the reduced fare has been paid.

Tactics

• Operation Lincoln creates a burden for the fare boxes which will cause them to be emptied for frequently.
• Operation Lincoln can also effect the buses "On Time Performance
  On-time performance
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• Operation Lincoln's purpose is to advocate fare reduction in fixed route public transit.
• Operation Lincoln affirms the notion that Seniors and Disability Fare Card Holders live on a fixed income
  Fixed income
  Fixed income refers to any type of investment that is not equity, which obligates the borrower/issuer to make payments on a fixed schedule, even if the number of the payments may be variable....
  
   and are pinching every penny to get by.
• Operation Lincoln also encourages a Zero Fare Public Transport.

Advocates

Advocate

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 of Zero Fare Public Transport claim that Public Transit is already paid for by the sales tax

Sales tax

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 and federal grants and that fares pick up a very minimal amount of the public transit agency.

This protest is called Operation Lincoln because President Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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is on the United States Penny or 1 cent coin.

A person paying in only pennies for bus fare is called a Operation Lincolneer.