You should not be able to catch that bus if you miss that bus. But the buses are so slow. So, as a State assembly member, I won the first of its kind fare free bus pilot. We made one bus route free in every borough of New York City, and we secured $15 million to do so. And it showed that ridership went up by up to 38%. Assaults on bus drivers went down by 38.9%. And of the largest increase of riders came from New Yorkers making $28,000 a year or less. (07:03–07:09)
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Asserts that a free bus route was implemented in each borough of NYC with $15 million funding.
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