Jai Patel
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For the MTA, excuse me.
And that's important to us.
And so we want to make sure revenues equal service.
And that is something that's a hypothetical right now.
But we we rely on Fairbox revenue.
I think there's pieces that he's he's looking at just the New York City transit bus fare.
We have MTA bus that we also run that the city contributes to.
And that is also fare box revenue for buses.
We are looking at it.
But one thing that I would like to emphasize right right now in New York City is.
fares are affordable.
We make transit and buses the most affordable at $2.90, and it's affordable with fare fares
reduce fare for our customers.
But, you know, it is something that we will look into as the mayoral candidate has proposed.
A couple of points on that, right?
A couple of the issues that arise in the subway systems are not the MTA's fault.
New York City, right, contributes to the flooding issues that we face in the subways, whether it's through DEP, manholes, the sewage.
So that is one aspect of the flooding that you see on the New York City transit.
But our historic capital plan, that $68.4 billion, does have climate resiliency issues.
of hardening the system in certain stations in proposed and therefore.