Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Buses

MTA Finds Replacement for Flashing Lights on Select Bus Service

By Stephen Miller | Jun 9, 2015 | 20 Comments

When Select Bus Service launched in 2008, the front of each bus featured two flashing blue lights to help passengers distinguish between SBS and local buses. Years after Staten Island lawmakers exploited a legal technicality, forcing the MTA to shut the lights off, the agency has figured out a solution. The lights are important because they help people determine whether […]

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The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 29, 2015 | No Comments

Just when you think you’ve seen everything in the transportation world, you encounter something different. That happened to me on an infrastructure tour in Cambridge, England, when my guides showed be this guided busway. The video only shows a short segment of The Busway, but it’s fascinating. The wheels of the bus run between grooved concrete slabs along an old […]

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Fewer People Are Riding the Bus Because There Are Fewer Buses to Ride

By Angie Schmitt | May 29, 2015 | No Comments

Remember when the Great Recession decimated transit agency budgets, but the White House and Congress refused to step in and fund bus service while spending billions of dollars to subsidize car purchases? Well, the hangover continues to this day, leaving bus riders in the lurch. Last year, bus ridership in America shrank 1 percent. While rail ridership grew 4 percent, […]

Q44 Select Bus Service: Bus Lanes for Flushing and Jamaica, Not in Between

By Stephen Miller | May 28, 2015 | 45 Comments

DOT and the MTA have released the plan for Select Bus Service on the Q44 linking Jamaica, Flushing, and the Bronx, which serves 44,000 passengers daily. The areas that need bus lanes most — downtown Jamaica and Flushing — are in line to get them, but not the rest of the route. Earlier this year, nearly a […]

DOT and MTA Years Behind Schedule on Traffic Signal Tech to Speed Buses

By Stephen Miller | May 21, 2015 | 6 Comments

Bus riders spend a lot of time stopped at red lights, but they don’t have to. A technology called transit signal priority, or TSP, speeds up transit trips by adjusting signal timing so buses hit more green lights and fewer reds. TSP has a proven track record in New York, but on several routes, implementation is years behind schedule. Transit signal priority […]

A Bus Design Flaw Is No Reason to Gut the Right of Way Law

By Brad Aaron | Apr 23, 2015 | 25 Comments

As part of its campaign to make it legal for bus drivers to injure and kill people, the Transport Workers Union says flawed bus design is to blame for bus drivers hitting pedestrians while turning. According to WABC, the TWU claims “half of all recent bus accidents” in NYC and nationwide occurred because drivers were prevented from seeing […]

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