The city restored some of the funding to its Fair Fare program that offers half-price transit fares for New York’s neediest commuters in this year’s budget, but transit advocates say officials must up their game to spread awareness and enroll more low-income commuters as the Big Apple comes back from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We talk about transit as this engine of recovery and the mayor should be doing everything in his power to make people aware of this program,” said Jaqi Cohen, director of the Straphangers Campaign with the nonprofit New York Public Interest Research Group. “The city should be doing anything it can to get people back on subways and buses, and that includes Fair Fares.”
