That sounds like she's shooting down your plan to make buses free, one of your core promises. So I don't take that in that manner. What I take that as is a recognition that We cannot demand of the MTA something that would deprive them of farebox revenue without providing them an alternate source of that revenue. There are some people who've thought that when I say make buses free, it just means telling the MTA you're going to have to deal with a loss of 7,800 million dollars in annual farebox revenue. (16:29–16:37)
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