Kansas City Council Dude Fact Checks Mamdani On Zero Fare

Like it or not . . . Kansas City voters have a new conservative voice stepping to the forefront of the national discourse.

Not reported in other local media outlets . . .

KANSAS CITY COUNCILMAN NATHAN WILLETT PENS AN IMPORTANT TRANSIT FACT CHECK AGAINST FREEBIE FARES ADVOCATED BY A SOCIALIST NYC MAYORAL CANDIDATE!!!

It's a collab column but still worth a read as our cowtown's bad policy, once again, hits the national stage and the councilman hopes for a promotion to Missouri State Senate.

Check the money line . . .  

New York City, take this as a warning: The “free bus” program that Zohran Mamdani has made a key part of his platform in his campaign for mayor is a proven failure.

We have seen it with our own eyes in our home town, Kansas City, Mo., which launched a fare-free bus program in 2020 — and pulled the plug on it this year.

We saw the degradation riders experienced under our city’s Zero Fare initiative, and spoke to our bus operators about the many problems it caused.

In 2024, Mamdani wrote an article for The Nation that praised Kansas City’s program as a successful model for a big-city bus system.

He claimed it gave working-class residents “economic breathing room while also making their commute safer,” citing one year’s worth of data from the experiment.

But Mamdani didn’t include data past 2020 — because the safety metrics on our city’s bus system are alarming . . .

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Zohran Mamdani's 'free buses' are a dangerous mistake - we've seen how they fail

Kansas City learned that Zero Fare, like Zohran Mamdani's other socialistic policies, had dire real-life consequences that are never contemplated at Democratic Socialists' organizing meetings...