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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social
Jul 10, 07:05 AM

While unveiling a new plan aimed at making New York City buses faster, Mayor Zohran Mamdani aimed to keep part of his speech to six minutes — the same amount of time he said the plan could save some commuters. He ended up speaking for longer than that time frame.

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"In New York City, time is money. And we are going to give New Yorkers some of that time back. Six minutes, to be precise. So to illustrate what six minutes saved really means, I have decided to keep the rest of my speech to six minutes exactly. We are going to use this stopwatch to show that the clock starts now. Years from today, when we take measure of whether this plan succeeded, we will calculate it by how many New Yorkers get home earlier, by how many buses arrived when they were supposed to, by how many working people got some relief from the heat and the rain, and by how I can't even speak as fast as the savings that we're going to receive. Because what we're going to see is that New Yorkers will spend six fewer minutes on the bus and six more minutes living their lives."

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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · Jul 8, 04:33 PM

While unveiling a new plan aimed at making New York City buses faster, Mayor Zohran Mamdani aimed to keep part of his speech to six minutes — the same amount of time he said the plan could save some commuters. He ended up speaking for longer than that time frame.