New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani defended his policy for free bus transportation, citing a lower assault rate on bus drivers.
Mamdani appeared on the podcast What’s Next? With Trevor Noah on Tuesday, roughly three months after his yearlong pilot of free bus routes ended in New York. Five routes reached all the boroughs, which didn’t charge fares from September 2023 to September 2024.
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