Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Select Bus Service

Eyes on the Street: Painting SBS Bus Lanes on Nostrand Avenue

By Stephen Miller | Sep 26, 2013 | 11 Comments

Brooklyn’s B44 bus carried more than 12.5 million passengers last year between the base of the Williamsburg Bridge and Sheepshead Bay, making it the city’s fifth-busiest bus route. But the B44, which runs primarily along Nostrand Avenue, is notoriously unreliable and spends less than half of each run in motion. Half the time, it’s stuck in traffic or at bus […]

MTA Planning Chief: NYC’s Next Mayor Needs to Stick Up for Bus Lanes

By Stephen Miller | Sep 12, 2013 | 5 Comments

After a presentation on regional transit ridership trends at NYU’s Rudin Center this morning, William Wheeler, the MTA’s planning director, said the city’s next mayor needs to firmly support the reallocation of street space for dedicated bus lanes, and should not back down in the face of opposition to changes that take away real estate […]

Will Letters From Two Uptown Electeds Get DOT to Restart 125th Street SBS?

By Stephen Miller | Aug 20, 2013 | 2 Comments

The plan for 125th Street Select Bus Service died on the vine after a lack of support from community boards and elected officials. But now, Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito [PDF] and State Senator Adriano Espaillat [PDF], along with council candidate Mark Levine, are asking Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan to restart plans to bring SBS to […]

Lander Intros Bill to Push NYC Bus Service to the Next Level

By Stephen Miller | Jul 25, 2013 | 12 Comments

Yesterday, Council Member Brad Lander introduced a bill that would require DOT, in consultation with the MTA and the public, to create a citywide master plan for developing Bus Rapid Transit. The bill, if enacted, would require the agency to submit a plan to the City Council, borough presidents, and community boards within two years. At a […]

MTA Maps a Five-Borough Network for Select Bus Service

By Brad Aaron | Jul 23, 2013 | 10 Comments

At a press event yesterday to announce service restorations and upgrades, the MTA also went public with a citywide plan to expand Select Bus Service. With tunnel-boring mega-projects consuming billions of capital dollars apiece, the agency is featuring low-cost bus improvements more prominently in its strategy to increase transit capacity. Stephen Smith at the Observer reports: […]

Who Killed 125th Street SBS: A Timeline

By Stephen Miller | Jul 17, 2013 | 15 Comments

Throughout the development of the 125th Street Select Bus Service project, local elected officials and community boards never came out in support of actual bus improvements. Instead, they cloaked their opposition in concerns about “process.” Following yesterday’s announcement from the MTA and NYC DOT that they will no longer pursue Select Bus Service on 125th Street, now is […]

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