Zohran Mamdani: “The M57 [bus] is the slowest bus in New York City, travels…”

“And what we have are families being priced out of the moments before they can actually enroll into school, where we have families that if they can't cough up $22,500 a year, they may not have childcare. The other day, I was on The M57 [bus] is the slowest bus in New York City, travels at a speed of 4.9 miles an hour. I'm sitting there, and this woman behind me starts talking to me. She's a city worker. She tells me she has two kids.” (36:08–36:12)

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