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. The truth is We would provide an alternate source for that $700 million a year [in farebox revenue]. That's what we're going to do. Okay. You didn't just meet with Hochul. Axios reported that you met with or spoke with multiple Democratic governors and that random uncle and the random uncle who was kind of a governor. (16:44–16:49)
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