State lawmakers proposed spending $90 million this year to improve bus service frequency and expand the scope of the MTA’s free bus pilot in the Assembly and Senate “one-house” budgets released on Tuesday.
The budget proposals, in response to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive spending plan, allocate $45 million for the MTA to increase bus frequency and $45 million to expand its free bus pilot in the five boroughs, scaling up to three routes per borough over the current one.
