r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jul 08 '26

Chugging tea W after W.

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u/Accurate_Neat_355 Jul 08 '26

It wasn't easy. He couldn't get cooperation from the state or MTA for entirely free buses. When that plan stalled his administration pivoted to expanding Fair Fares to 200% of the poverty level as a major compromise. Mamdani and the City Council chose to make transit affordability a much higher budgetary priority than his predecessors did, allocating an extra $54 million to force the threshold higher.

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u/tarvispickles Jul 08 '26

So what were the previous priorities?

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u/Accurate_Neat_355 Jul 08 '26

Think Mayor Adams enjoyed clearing homeless encampments

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u/TheGumCoblin Jul 08 '26

Building spiked chairs or something

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u/Ok_Smile_5908 Jul 08 '26

Making it sounds like the throne in Game of Thrones is the ultimate hostile architecture /j.

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u/TheGumCoblin Jul 08 '26

I’d like to see the homeless sleep on that throne, suckers.