{"id":120370,"date":"2026-02-02T19:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120370\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:12:12","slug":"an-even-bigger-nyc-subway-system-why-transit-experts-say-mayor-mamdani-should-focus-on-that-rather-than-fare-free-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120370\/","title":{"rendered":"An even bigger NYC subway system? Why transit experts say Mayor Mamdani should focus on that rather than fare-free buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>New York ought to focus on vastly expanding the subway system rather than investing in fare-free buses, a group of policy experts argues in a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The report, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/transitcosts.com\/a-better-billion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">A Better Billion<\/a>, the NYU Marron Institute\u2019s Transit Costs Project, makes the case to Mayor Zohran Mamdani that filling out many empty patches of the MTA subway map would be a far better use of the estimated $1 billion-a-year it would take to fund his proposal to eliminate fares on city buses.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/nyc-subway-system-expansion-mamdani-buses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tAn even bigger NYC subway system? Why transit experts say Mayor Mamdani should focus on that rather than fare-free buses &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; New York ought to focus on vastly expanding the subway system rather than investing in fare-free buses,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3932,52843,22925,141,9,12,56,63,65,64,1210,52844,52845,4025,52846],"class_list":{"0":"post-120370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-gov-kathy-hochul","9":"tag-long-island-expressway-line","10":"tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","11":"tag-mta","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-nyc-transit","19":"tag-nyumarron-institute-of-urban-management-transportation-and-land-use-group","20":"tag-queens-link","21":"tag-second-avenue-subway","22":"tag-utica-avenue-expansion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}