The public grilled a panel of 2025 NYC mayoral candidates on how they plan to improve NYC's busy transit system if elected to public office.
, a local bus and subway advocacy group, hosted the Transit Riders Mayor al Forum, moderated by WNYC/Gothamist City Hall reporter Elizabeth Kim at BRIC Arts Media in Downtown Brooklyn.
Several candidates, including Myrie, who is chairman of the state Senate Elections Committee, wasted no time calling out Mayor Adams’ shortcomings in transit efficiency while seeming to highlight Hizzoner’s quiet stance on Donald Trump’s victory in the 2025 U.S. presidential election.“We had a mayor that when congestion pricing was paused, said nothing for two days,” Myrie said. “At minimum I’d be prepared to defend congestion pricing regardless of who is president of this country.
“When I’m mayor, we’re going to reorganize the Department of Transportation and put them to work,” he said. “We’re going to realize my plan of making sure that buses and trains run six minutes apart. We’re going to initiate the greatest bus expansion plan, and we’re going to find the money to do it. It’s a small down payment, congestion pricing.”“But 64% goes to state highways. 34% goes to NYC streets and subway infrastructure,” he highlighted. “We need that money.
He suggested using vacant stores as central locations for services that mentally ill New Yorkers can access.
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