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Kansas City ends free bus experiment over budget woes: 0-2 for Mamdani’s socialist proposals
« on: August 24, 2025, 02:13:32 pm »
 


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Kansas City ends free bus experiment over budget woes: 0-2 for Mamdani’s socialist proposals
By Gabrielle Fahmy
Published Aug. 23, 2025, 11:01 a.m. ET
 
Kansas City’s $50 million experiment with free bus fare is hitting the brakes — because the city can no longer afford it.

Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s socialist proposals — including free buses in the five boroughs and Soviet-style, city-owned grocery stores — are now 0-2 when tried elsewhere, after Kansas City’s own venture with a government-run grocery abruptly closed earlier this month.

The Midwest city used federal COVID-19 relief money in 2020 to become the first in the country to institute free buses.
 
But local funding dried up, and riders and conductors slammed the buses as unreliable, filthy, rolling homeless shelters, something critics say could easily happen in Gotham.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/us-news/kansas-city-ends-free-bus-experiment-over-budget-woes-0-2-for-mamdanis-socialist-proposals/
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Re: Kansas City ends free bus experiment over budget woes: 0-2 for Mamdani’s socialist proposals
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2025, 02:16:44 pm »
Free buses can work! One for each borough....
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Re: Kansas City ends free bus experiment over budget woes: 0-2 for Mamdani’s socialist proposals
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2025, 02:16:56 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on August 24, 2025, 02:13:32 pm
  0-2 for Mamdani’s socialist proposals

It was nice of the Post to make note of that, but it doesn't mean a thing to NYC voters.  The only thing that matters to them is how far left the candidate is.  The farther left, the more likely the win.
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