MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber insisted on Tuesday that “nobody” in city or state government has asked him about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration’s reported proposal to test out fare-free buses across the city during the FIFA World Cup this summer.
During a March 17 City Council budget hearing in which MTA brass took questions from city lawmakers, Lieber denied that anyone had approached him about eliminating fares on city buses during the five-week soccer championship event that is expected to bring 1.2 million visitors to the New York and New Jersey region this summer.
