The top issue with buses is not the $2.75 fare. Top surveyed issues relate to:

• quality of life/safety
• access: number of lines/frequency

Making the buses free is political theater that's easy to attribute to the politicians who pushed for it, while the fixes we need are not going to be so visually obvious. This is an awful idea that will literally contribute to worsening the issues people want addressed.

Yup, and guess what services are first to be cut when there’s budget cuts. It’s not the one that charges a fare.

If allowing more people to use public transit will make public transit worse, we're doing it wrong. The point is for people to use it to get from point A to point B. We don't need to self sort the classes to the front and back of the bus to keep it "civilized."

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The bus is one of the worst ways to get around the city. It's slow , filthy and some of the same people who've made riding the subway a terrible experience ride the bus too . Some of the buses are infested with roaches . 2.75 , 2 dollars or free they still have work to do making it a better and safer experience for the rider.

Making the buses free will make them run faster.

This plan has a lot of quality improvements too, the headline is a little too focused on the flashy free fares aspect

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Free everything for their votes

It's really just a means of increasing taxes so that MTA has a steady stream of income. That's it. Money is money and it all stems from us paying it on the back end like we do where daida are skipped or on the front end with taxes so that they maintain their revenue stream.

I can't believe you guys down voted me I'm right!

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It would be a start. People will no longer have to fumble for metrocards and hold up the bus. Bus operators could open all doors which would allow for fast boarding. The next step would be to change the distance between stops. We don’t need stops on every block.