Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Buses

MTA: Don’t Ask Us to Do More for NYC Bus Riders

By David Meyer | Oct 6, 2016 | 44 Comments

Bus ridership in New York City has steadily declined since 2002, and bus riders put up with the slowest average speeds in the nation. But the MTA is in no hurry to fix the problem. At a City Council hearing this morning, MTA representatives touted the agency’s piecemeal efforts to improve bus service while pushing back […]

How Bad Is Bus Service on Your Route? Check This Web Site and See

By Brad Aaron | Oct 6, 2016 | 10 Comments

Just how bad do bus riders have it in NYC? Today the transit advocates with the Bus Turnaround campaign launched a web site that lets you look up any route in the system and see how it performs. Spend a few minutes on the site and you’ll see why ridership has fallen 16 percent citywide since 2002. There’s […]

Queue Jumps: A Simple Fix to Speed Up NYC’s Buses

By David Meyer | Oct 5, 2016 | 2 Comments

With the City Council set to take on NYC’s declining bus service tomorrow morning, here’s a look at one of the many strategies DOT and the MTA can employ to speed up the city’s slowest-in-the-nation buses: queue jumps. Queue jumps give buses a green light before other vehicles at an intersection, often via a dedicated “queue jump lane” that allows buses to skip […]

Will the MTA Deliver Bus Service That People Want to Use?

By Ben Fried | Oct 5, 2016 | 2 Comments

“You have to have a mass transit system that people want to use,” Governor Cuomo asserted at a transportation-themed press event today. At least he got that much right. Cuomo’s transit announcements tend to glorify grand edifices like a new Penn Station train hall, boondoggles like a roundabout AirTrain link to LaGuardia by way of Flushing, or […]

MTA Bus Driver Kills Anna Colon, 73, on the Lower East Side

By Brad Aaron | Oct 4, 2016 | 55 Comments

An MTA bus driver killed a senior on the Lower East Side this morning. Anna Colon, 73, was crossing East Houston Street north to south at around 9:50 a.m. when the driver, who was also southbound, hit her while turning left from Avenue D onto East Houston, according to NYPD. “[The light] was about to turn red […]

Want Better Bus Service? Share Your “Woes on the Bus” With NYC Electeds

By David Meyer | Sep 28, 2016 | No Comments

If you’ve ever taken a New York City bus, you probably have a horror story. Maybe you were late to school thanks to a double-parked motorist idling in the bus lane, or missed an appointment after you waited 20 minutes for a bus to show up, then three arrived all at the same time, already packed with riders. Now […]

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