The Democratic leaders in both houses of the state Legislature released budget proposals for the coming fiscal year that support the renewal of a fare-free bus pilot program as Mayor Zohran Mamdani continues his push for eliminating bus fares citywide.
The state Senate’s and Assembly’s Fiscal Year 2027 spending and policy proposals, known as their “one-house” budget resolutions, each call for a resurrection of the free-bus pilot that Mamdani sponsored when he represented western Queens in Albany’s lower chamber. The upper chamber also called for an expansion of that program.
