Apr. 21, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld The free rides will soon be over. The MTA’s experiment in fare-less city bus service will soon come to an unceremonious end, after Albany lawmakers did not reauthorize it in the newly-enacted state budget. One MTA bus in each borough has been fare-free since September as part of…
Mar. 12, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld
State lawmakers proposed spending $90 million this year to improve bus service frequency and expand the scope of the MTA’s free bus pilot in the Assembly and Senate “one-house” budgets released on Tuesday.
Sep. 24, 2023 By Ben Brachfeld
The MTA’s free bus pilot kicked off Sunday, Sept. 24, with one route in each borough waiving fares for at least six months as the transit agency studies the impact on service delivery, bus speeds, and ridership.