Nyc Expanding Fair Fares Program

Summary

There is a new push to make buses and trains free for low-income New Yorkers. CBS News New York's Adi Guajardo reports. Analysts from the Independent Budget Office walk us through their cost estimates for two approaches to improving transit ... Lauren Glassberg has the latest. more Eyewitness News - abc7ny.com/ Find us on social media: FACEBOOK: ... A new report from the Citizens Budget Commission makes the case for raising the income threshold for the city's half-price transit ... ... called for the federal poverty level to be increased to 200%, which would give more people access to the A coalition of community leaders and lawmakers called for half-priced MetroCards for low-income New Yorkers in the upcoming ... Mayor Bill De Blasio and other officials gathered to launch the " City Comptroller Scott Stringer will call on Mayor Bill de Blasio to detail is plan to implement the transit ... and community leaders stood together on the steps of City Hall to demand an