NYC BUDGET: City Council expands Fair Fares half-priced fare program to make 340,000 more New Yorkers eligible

The NYC budget deal includes a significant expansion of the Fair Fares program, offering half-priced subway, bus and paratransit trips to an additional 340,000 New Yorkers who will now be eligible to participate, according to City Council Speaker Julie Menin’s office.

The speaker shook hands with Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the $125.8 billion spending plan on Tuesday morning, and it is set to be passed by the council later today, June 30, the deadline date for the city budget.