Zohran Mamdani: “Making buses free, we have to replace the revenue for the…”

“And also, is there a workaround? Well, I think the governor and I share a belief that in Making buses free, we have to replace the revenue for the mta. We cannot simply demand that they do so without covering the amount of money they would raise from fares. And that's a cost of about $700 million a year.” (04:36–04:40)

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