New York ought to focus on vastly expanding the subway system rather than investing in fare-free buses, a group of policy experts argues in a new report.
The report, titled A Better Billion, the NYU Marron Institute’s Transit Costs Project, makes the case to Mayor Zohran Mamdani that filling out many empty patches of the MTA subway map would be a far better use of the estimated $1 billion-a-year it would take to fund his proposal to eliminate fares on city buses.
