Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bus Rapid Transit

In Speech, Vacca Promises Support for Select Bus Service, Pedestrian Safety

By Noah Kazis | Feb 21, 2012 | 35 Comments

In a speech this morning at NYU’s Rudin Center for Transportation, City Council Transportation Committee Chair James Vacca laid out his agenda for the coming year. His remarks focused on efforts to support Select Bus Service outside the Manhattan core and to improve pedestrian safety. Also on Vacca’s list were curbing placard abuse and enforcing […]

Across Brooklyn, More Commuters Rely on Transit to Get to Work

By Noah Kazis | Jan 30, 2012 | 4 Comments

Brooklyn commuters — already some of the biggest transit riders in the country — are opting for transit at ever higher rates. New numbers from the Center for the Study of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College, first highlighted by City Limits’ Brooklyn Bureau, crunch Census data to reveal the evolving commuting patterns in the borough’s 18 […]

Tappan Zee Draft EIS Underscores Cuomo Admin’s Disregard for Transit

By Noah Kazis | Jan 25, 2012 | 2 Comments

The Cuomo administration’s latest thinking on the new Tappan Zee Bridge, contained in the draft environmental impact statement it released yesterday, reinforces the state’s commitment to building a sprawl-inducing, highway-only bridge. The document not only dismisses bus rapid transit, but also clears the way for an enormous expansion of automobile capacity and makes a mockery […]

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Will Rahm Emanuel Show America What BRT Can Do?

By Ben Schulman | Dec 19, 2011 | No Comments

With impressive urgency, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has spent his first months in office retooling and reconfiguring how the “City That Works” works. Emanuel’s energy is evident in changes from beat-cop deployment to the push for a longer school day, but perhaps the mayor’s most tangible efforts can be seen in his ambitious transportation agenda. […]

Transit Union Leader Urges Labor to Back Transit on the New Tappan Zee

By Noah Kazis | Dec 13, 2011 | 2 Comments

Despite widespread opposition, Governor Andrew Cuomo is plowing forward with plans to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge without transit. Even so, there’s still no plan for how to pay for the bridge. Cuomo has proposed that union pension funds put up some of the money, but there’s been no explanation of how those pension […]

Next for Select Bus Service: Webster Ave in the Bronx, Utica Ave in Brooklyn

By Noah Kazis | Dec 12, 2011 | 17 Comments

A new crop of bus routes is moving into the pipeline for implementation as Select Bus Service. The MTA and NYC DOT are in the initial stages of bringing SBS to the Bronx’s Webster Avenue, where the most unreliable bus in the borough runs, and to Brooklyn’s Utica Avenue, the second-busiest bus route in the […]

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