Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Buses

DOT Presents Full Menu of Street Improvements for Jackson Heights

By Len Maniace | Feb 14, 2011 | No Comments

When large numbers of pedestrians, trucks and cars battle for limited space, you get a traffic mess. When that traffic mess is in one of the nation’s first high-density garden communities, which now is also one of the nation’s most diverse communities, you get Jackson Heights. City transportation planners are taking another shot at untangling […]

Questions Remain for Hunter’s Point South Transpo Plan

By Noah Kazis | Feb 9, 2011 | 6 Comments

This morning, the Bloomberg Administration announced the developer for the first phase of Hunter’s Point South, a Long Island City project the city is billing as the largest middle-class housing project since Co-Op City and Starrett City went up in the 1970s. A team led by the Related Companies will be developing the first 900 […]

DOT’s Interactive Map Points the Way to a More Livable Jackson Heights

By Noah Kazis | Feb 2, 2011 | 2 Comments

Since 2009, the Department of Transportation has been engaged in a major study of Jackson Heights’ streets and sidewalks. At the request of community groups and with federal funding from Rep. Joe Crowley, DOT has been developing a plan to make the neighborhood safer, less congested, and more transit-accessible. After two years of research and […]

Real-Time Bus Info Arrives Along the B63

By Noah Kazis | Feb 1, 2011 | 19 Comments

From the Verrazano to Brooklyn Heights, passengers on the B63 can now make their rides more predictable. As of today, the MTA has launched a new bus tracking system that enables riders to find the location of every bus on the route either online or by text message. For riders who can send texts or […]

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The Slowest Bus in New York City

By Robin Urban Smith | Dec 7, 2010 | No Comments

New York City has some of the slowest bus service in the country. The 9th annual Pokey and Shleppie Awards, given by NYPIRG’s Straphanger Campaign and Transportation Alternatives, shine a spotlight on this unfortunate fact by recognizing the slowest and most unreliable buses in the Big Apple. Tune in above to see which routes earn […]

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Give Your Line Some Love: Enter GOOD Magazine’s Best Bus Route Contest

By Bryan Goebel | Nov 5, 2010 | No Comments

While many Americans may not think riding a bus is the sexiest form of transportation, the reality is that a majority of public transit trips in the U.S. are taken by bus. Every one of the hundreds of thousands of passengers who boarded a bus in the last year has a story to tell and […]

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