Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner, dismissed on Thursday MTA Chair Janno Lieber's recent criticism of his signature campaign promise to make buses operated by the agency free.

Lieber is one of a number of critics of Mamdani's fare-free bus plan. As amNewYork reported Wednesday in an in-depth examination of the plan, skeptics say Mamdani faces numerous challenges to fulfilling this campaign promise — from financing operations without a state-approved tax increase, to wresting control of the bus system away from the MTA.

During a Thursday afternoon Brooklyn campaign stop, Mamdani responded to Lieber's comments from earlier this week on NY1, stating that his free bus proposal needed to be studied far more thoroughly.

"Any change of the scale that's being talked

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