City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams wants the city’s “Fair Fares” program to double the number of New Yorkers eligible for reduced-fare rides on subways and buses.
The speaker announced her support for the move in the city’s budget on Wednesday at her State of the City address in the Bronx.
“As part of our work to make our city’s transit system more accessible, we will expand Fair Fares to offer half-priced bus and subway rides to New Yorkers with incomes below 200% of the federal poverty level,” the speaker said during her speech in Soundview. “Nearly doubling the number of low-income New Yorkers eligible to benefit.”
The speaker’s plan was first reported by the New York Daily News on Tuesday.
