{"id":75849,"date":"2025-12-19T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75849\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:50:08","slug":"nycs-buses-put-in-the-spotlight-with-mamdanis-mayoral-win-citylab-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75849\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s Buses Put in the Spotlight With Mamdani&#8217;s Mayoral Win: CityLab Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Zohran Mamdani\u2019s victory in New York City\u2019s mayoral race put an unlikely spotlight on buses after he made them central to his campaign. While it remains to be seen whether he can fulfill his promise to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-03\/mamdani-s-free-nyc-buses-promise-could-come-with-transit-trade-offs?sref=0IejgNtz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">eliminate bus fares<\/a>, voter enthusiasm for Mamdani may reflect a little-understood reality about just how essential buses are to most cities\u2019 transportation systems, writes Aaron Gordon in a new perspective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Buses will always have more reach and versatility than trains, he writes, and even in NYC, many journeys are far better served by the bus \u2014 which makes the case for more investment. Beyond making buses free, making them faster and more reliable is perhaps the bigger challenge facing Mamdani. Today on CityLab: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-19\/why-it-s-so-hard-to-make-buses-faster-in-nyc?srnd=homepage-americas&amp;sref=0IejgNtz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">With Mamdani, the Humble Bus Gets Its Due<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani\u2019s victory in New York City\u2019s mayoral race put an unlikely spotlight on buses after he made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30521,288,3339,5869,858,5867,9,24,56,63,65,64,6863,5913,608,7130,6648],"class_list":["post-75849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-aaron-gordon","tag-business","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-congress","tag-design","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-obamacare","tag-regulation","tag-transportation","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75849","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=75849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}