Zohran Mamdani: “When you make the bus free at point of Service, you find…”

“I think we should increase the eligibility. But also when you ask the MTA, they say that success for fair fares would be 50% of those eligible using it. When you make the bus free at point of Service, you find 100% of people who are eligible will actually be able to use it. And so when we made those five routes free, we found that, you know, a significant portion were eligible for fairfares. Less than 20% were enrolled.” (04:24–04:31)

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