Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Buses

Streetfilms: Hey Port Authority, How About More Room for Buses?

By Elizabeth Press | Jun 25, 2009 | 12 Comments

Over 315,000 bus riders cross the Hudson River each weekday. More than half of these bus riders travel through the Lincoln Tunnel, but the exclusive bus lane, which only operates during the morning rush hour, is at capacity. This Streetfilm, produced in collaboration with the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and with animation by Hugh Gran and […]

TSTC to Port Authority: Bus Service Across Hudson Needs to Improve, Fast

By Ben Fried | May 14, 2009 | 4 Comments

Average weekday eastbound trips, 2008. Source: TSTC/Port Authority of NY & NJ. The Lincoln Tunnel Express Bus Lane is a congestion-busting powerhouse, moving 62,000 riders into Manhattan during the morning rush every day and enticing huge numbers of commuters to leave their cars at home. It is now "the most efficient roadway in the country," […]

Is the Obama Administration Poised to Push Transit?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 24, 2009 | 4 Comments

While President Barack Obama promoted wind power and cap-and-trade legislation, VP Joe Biden spent Earth Day talking up transit. Public radio’s "The Takeaway" reports that Biden held a presser at a bus maintenance facility in Landover, Maryland, to tout a $300 million investment in hybrid buses and other municipal vehicles as part of the federal […]

State DOT Pulls Transit Bait-and-Switch on Staten Island

By Ben Fried | Apr 8, 2009 | 17 Comments

Photo: SI Advance via MTR. One of the more common excuses we’ve been hearing from local pols during the current MTA crisis is that "service never improves," so why bother to fund transit? Set aside, for the moment, the fact that subways and buses are moving way more New Yorkers than they did just a […]

B77 Riders Protest Service Cuts. Is Velmanette Montgomery Listening?

By Ben Fried | Apr 6, 2009 | 3 Comments

Without a rescue plan from Albany, say goodbye to night-time service on the B77. Photo: Clarence Eckerson. It’s a long walk from the Red Hook West houses to the nearest subway stop at Smith-9th Street, and even longer to train connections at Fourth Avenue. Without night-time B77 service, a lot of commuters from the largest […]

Streetfilms: Taking a Ride on Bx12 Select Bus Service

By Brad Aaron | Mar 30, 2009 | No Comments

Veronica Vanterpool of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign recently took Streetfilms’ Nick Whitaker on a tour of the city’s inaugural Select Bus Service (SBS) line, the Bx12, introduced last year on Fordham Road in the Bronx. As Nick writes: Travel time on the route has been cut by 20 percent thanks to the improvements, and commuters […]

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