Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Buses

The Port Authority Bus Terminal and Our Glaring Lack of Transit Leadership

By Stephen Miller | Sep 24, 2015 | 40 Comments

The effort to replace the aging and overcrowded Port Authority Bus Terminal continues to suffer from the New York region’s inability to coordinate its transit mega-projects. The bus terminal already handles more than 225,000 passengers per weekday and cannot accommodate all the bus traffic that crosses the Hudson in Midtown. Demand is expected to increase about 50 percent by 2040, […]

Cuomo Signs Bill Allowing NYC to Expand Bus Lane Camera Program

By Stephen Miller | Sep 21, 2015 | 10 Comments

Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill on Saturday that will speed up bus trips by expanding the number of bus lanes where the city can deploy camera enforcement. The law now enables New York City to use cameras to keep car drivers out of exclusive bus lanes on up to 16 routes, an increase from just six today. […]

Bike Racks Debut on Buses Across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

By Stephen Miller | Sep 8, 2015 | 17 Comments

New Yorkers are finally getting to try out a multi-modal transportation option that’s old hat to residents of other major American cities — bike racks on buses. Sunday marked the debut of front-mounted bike racks on the S53 and S93 buses across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The MTA purchased 38 bike racks at a cost of $42,000 and installed them on 31 […]

MTA: Bike Racks Are Coming to Buses Over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

By Stephen Miller | Aug 31, 2015 | 15 Comments

As of September 6, New York will no longer be the only major American city without bike racks on its buses. The MTA announced this afternoon that it is launching a one-year pilot of front-mounted bike racks on the S53 and S93 routes, which run across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. “Before this program, our customers had no […]

How About a Transit System Where No One Has “No Good Options”?

By Stephen Miller | Aug 28, 2015 | 4 Comments

A lengthy FiveThirtyEight article today by Nate Silver and Reuben Fischer-Baum crunches some data to arrive at two major insights: First, New Yorkers use Uber much like they use taxis, and second, for-hire cars are used primarily by well-off New Yorkers to supplement transit in close-in neighborhoods, not to replace car ownership in the outer boroughs. The best part of the […]

Will the Governor Who Never Rides the Bus Sign NYC’s Bus Lane Camera Bill?

By Stephen Miller | Aug 26, 2015 | 12 Comments

Governor Andrew Cuomo definitely hasn’t taken an MTA bus “since he first assumed office in 2011,” Gothamist reported yesterday, and it’s probably been much longer than that. So will the governor who never rides the bus sign the bill to expand camera enforcement of New York City’s growing bus lane network? “If Governor Cuomo actually rode the bus like the […]

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