{"id":327047,"date":"2026-08-21T23:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327047\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T23:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:16:08","slug":"free-buses-for-nyc-still-a-work-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327047\/","title":{"rendered":"Free buses for NYC? Still a work in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) &#8212; Status check on one of <a data-ylk=\"slk:Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#039;s;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/want-to-cook-for-mamdani-nyc-offers-64500-for-new-cook-job-at-gracie-mansion\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s<\/a> biggest campaign promises, free buses: work in progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York City Deputy Mayor of Operations Julia Kerson joins PIX11 to discuss her office&#8217;s progress on fast and free buses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:More News: PIX on Politics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/politics\/pixonpolitics\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0More News: PIX on Politics\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When it comes to the &#8220;fast&#8221; part, Kerson is leading the way with the &#8220;Next Stop&#8221; program, which is reforming routes to increase speeds by an average of six minutes. When it comes to the &#8220;free&#8221; promise, that is still a work in progress with the MTA and Albany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The deputy mayor also addressed the <a data-ylk=\"slk:city&#039;s 911 glitch Tuesday morning;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/nyc-officials-investigate-why-911-system-failed-for-hours\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">city&#8217;s 911 glitch Tuesday morning<\/a> that prevented nearly 2,000 calls from getting through to dispatchers. Kerson said that, so far, there are no indications that those who needed help were unable to get it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch the video player for the full interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. 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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) &#8212; Status check on one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s biggest campaign promises, free buses:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[42372,14814,9,56,63,65,64,123058,123059,82],"class_list":["post-327047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-fast-and-free-buses","tag-free-buses","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-operations-julia-kerson","tag-work-in-progress","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327047","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=327047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}