Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Buses

At Sloth-Like 3.5 MPH, M50 Bus Wins This Year’s Pokey Award

By Noah Kazis | Dec 1, 2011 | 2 Comments

Want to understand why more Manhattanites don’t ride the bus? Look no further than this year’s Pokey awards, given out annually by the Straphangers Campaign. Manhattan buses, as usual, top the list of the year’s slowest service. The Pokey this year goes to the M50 crosstown bus, which averaged a mere 3.5 miles per hour […]

Transit Deserts Leave New Yorkers Thirsting for Access to Jobs

By Dani Simons | Nov 22, 2011 | 8 Comments

Much progress has been made in the five years since Scott Stringer’s first transportation conference, but many transit riders are still wandering in the “transportation deserts” that were the focus of one afternoon panel at the Manhattan borough president’s follow-up event, Transportation 2030, this past Friday. Transportation deserts include neighborhoods from City Island in the […]

Here They Are: The Best and Worst City Transit Scenes

By Brad Aaron | Jul 6, 2011 | 3 Comments

The Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives have chosen the winners for their best and worst of New York City Transit photo contest. The top “Good Transit Scene” was “Break of Day ” by Sabrina Porter, while John Wehmeyer took the prize for best “Bad Transit Scene” with “”Reassuring? Not so much!” Porter and Wehmeyer will […]

Transit Photo Contest Down to Ten Finalists – Time to Vote

By Noah Kazis | Jun 20, 2011 | 4 Comments

The transit photo contest held by the Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives has moved into the final round. Five finalists have been selected for the photo that most captures New York City’s transit system at its best, and five have been chosen to represent the system at its worst. You can vote for your favorite […]

DOT Chooses Least Ambitious Option For 181st Street Makeover

By Noah Kazis | Jun 13, 2011 | 2 Comments

With five bus lines, two subway stops, a busy commercial strip, the only entrance to the Hudson River Greenway for blocks, and major bridge crossings at both ends of the street, Washington Heights’ 181st Street is a tangle of cars, buses, bikes and pedestrians. For years, DOT has been looking to redesign the corridor entirely, […]

Leroy Comrie Weighs in on New Jamaica Bus Lanes

By Noah Kazis | May 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

With thousands of bus riders per hour traveling each direction on Archer Avenue, DOT’s proposed bus improvements for Downtown Jamaica are some of the most important street redesigns on the table right now. But previous bus improvements in this part of Queens have been politically vulnerable — a proposed Select Bus Service route along Merrick […]

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