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It looks like Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s getting a wish-granted monkey-paw style: MTA buses are now de-facto free — at the price of making them increasingly dangerous and blowing a disastrous hole in the agency’s finances.
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them → look → finances
MTA chief Janno Leiber last week suspended the EAGLE fare-verification program after a couple of ugly incidents, presumably under political orders not to upset the anti-policing left.
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Leiber → suspend → left
And NYPD flacks say the cops have “no plans” to step in; officers haven’t been issuing more than handful of farebeating summonses for some time, and the city’s district attorneys have given up on prosecuting them.
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attorneys → say → them
Few bus drivers are in any position to enforce; it means risking their lives.
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it → enforce → lives
With nothing making anyone pay, ever-fewer riders are.
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riders → make → ?
Fare-skipping bus riders cost the agency $568 million in 2024, estimates the nonpartisan Citizens Budget Commission; 2025 was likely worse.
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2025 → skip → 2024
And that’s not just an immediate hit to the agency’s bottom line: Its finances also depend on regularly issuing bonds backed by expected fare collections.
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finances → ’ → collections
With bus revenues rushing to zero, who’s going to bid much when the MTA attempts its next bond auction in a few weeks?
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MTA → rush → weeks
Potential bidders also have to worry if a collapse in subway collections will be next.
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collapse → have → collections
COVID struck a fatal blow to busfare collection: Half of all riders no longer pay, while subway evasion is closer to (a still-troubling) 10%.
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evasion → strike → %
The MTA saw some progress with the 350-member EAGLE force, which upped collection 7% where deployed, but that’s off for the foreseeable future.
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that → see → future
Which means worse than lost revenue: It invites the worst antisocial behavior, harassing other riders and endangering drivers — discouraging the very people Mamdani wants to help by making buses free.
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buses → mean → people
: If he won’t support the NYPD stepping in, she (or her successor) must support the dispatch of armed, trained MTA cops to turn things around, or at the very least a ramp-up of the EAGLE program, not a surrender.
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she → support → program
If the politicians won’t stand up for making public transit work, first the buses and then the subways will spiral downward — at dire cost to every working New Yorker.
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buses → stand → Yorker
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