Mamdani’s camp is tracking Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s challenges and trying to avoid repeating his missteps, according to a person close to both Mamdani’s and Johnson’s teams.
I dunno… The whole make buses free so they run faster is not well tethered to the reality of bus travel. It’s stuff like that that makes me worried for Mamdani.
To be clear, he is not saying that making them free will cause them to be faster. He is saying he will make them free and will also make them faster. Two different things
So i took a bus line in LA that went free for a while, and it got faster. It just got faster, because people didnt habe to fuck around with their ohones or their cards or qhatever while boarding.
I can say, conxlusively, as someone who takes the bus and regularly took a bus line that went free for a while: this works. It’s great. Bus feels safer too.
I dunno… The whole make buses free so they run faster is not well tethered to the reality of bus travel. It’s stuff like that that makes me worried for Mamdani.
To be clear, he is not saying that making them free will cause them to be faster. He is saying he will make them free and will also make them faster. Two different things
So i took a bus line in LA that went free for a while, and it got faster. It just got faster, because people didnt habe to fuck around with their ohones or their cards or qhatever while boarding.
I can say, conxlusively, as someone who takes the bus and regularly took a bus line that went free for a while: this works. It’s great. Bus feels safer too.