Source: New York Post
The US city that inspired Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pie-in-the-sky idea to provide Big Apple commuters free bus service is now slapping fares back on riders after its $50 million experiment ran dry. Kansas City, Missouri, which used federal COVID relief funds in 2020 to become the first in the country to roll out free buses, brought fares back this month after the far-fetched program collapsed as the money ran out as operating costs ballooned to about $15 million a year — nearly double its initial price tag, Bloomberg reported. The zero-fare bus service – a centerpiece of Mamdani’s mayoral campaign – was slammed by Missouri riders and conductors as unreliable, filthy, rolling homeless shelters once the federal funds dried up.
