Bus Time Set to Expand to Manhattan This Month; Queens and Brooklyn Next
Nearly a year after the Bronx became the second borough to get real-time bus tracking on all its buses, the MTA's Bus Time program is set to expand to Manhattan this month, according to signs spotted in Manhattan subway stations by Twitter user David Rose and Second Avenue Sagas.
In March, the MTA announced that Bus Time would go live in Manhattan "this year," followed by Brooklyn, then Queens. The authority said that by April 2014, all five boroughs will have Bus Time. The program, piloted in 2011 on the B63 in Brooklyn and rolled out to Staten Island last year, is a popular feature for the city's buses, which have struggled with ridership even as the number of subway passengers has soared.
The MTA says it will be making an official announcement about Bus Time's Manhattan rollout early next week, and that "all five boroughs will be online sometime in the spring 2014."
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