3 ways Mamdani plans to make the bus faster — and why it's harder to make rides free

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is taking action on the "fast" part of his "free and fast" bus pitch. Stephen Yang for BI NYC commuters told BI they would rather have a reliable bus than a free one. Mamdani is rolling out plans to widen bus lanes and improve transit infrastructure. It's cheaper to make buses faster than to make them free. Sarah Moelis impatiently swirls the ice around her half-full Dunkin' coffee as she rides the M15 bus up the length of Manhattan. Some days she has to run to catch it,…