With Transit fares going up again in the New Year one Vancouver civic party says "enough is enough" and is calling for free transit rides downtown.

Former Vancouver councillor with the Coalition of Progressive Electors Tim Louis says Translink should be looking at making certain areas of the system free.

Louis says Seattle and Portland already offer free rides along certain sections of their transit lines.

He says "we need to keep working on getting ridership up by reducing and eliminating fares wherever possible."

Louis also says there's a tipping point for fare increases becasue he says at some point a percentage of riders will decide to get back their their vehicles.