Transit advocates blasted Mayor Zohran Mamdani for declining to increase funding for the city’s discounted fare program in the preliminary budget proposal he released on Tuesday.
Advocates with Riders Alliance and the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee (PCAC) to the MTA pointed out that Mamdani’s $127 billion spending plan does not fund an expansion of the Fair Fares program, which currently provides New Yorkers making 150% of the federal poverty level with half-priced public transit trips.
