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Will the Governor Who Never Rides the Bus Sign NYC’s Bus Lane Camera Bill?

Governor Andrew Cuomo definitely hasn't taken an MTA bus "since he first assumed office in 2011," Gothamist reported yesterday, and it's probably been much longer than that. So will the governor who never rides the bus sign the bill to expand camera enforcement of New York City's growing bus lane network?

Cuomo gets off a bus in Havana. Photo: Governor's Office/Flickr
Cuomo gets off a bus... in Havana. Photo: Governor's Office/Flickr
Cuomo gets off a bus in Havana. Photo: Governor's Office/Flickr

"If Governor Cuomo actually rode the bus like the two million New Yorkers who do it daily, he'd see how much we need improved bus service," Nick Sifuentes of the Riders Alliance told Gothamist.

Specifically, if Cuomo saw first-hand what the millions of daily NYC bus passengers put up with, he might warm to the bill to expand bus lane cameras, which has awaited his signature since it passed the legislature two months ago.

The bill would bring automated bus lane enforcement to 10 additional bus routes, on top of the six already approved by Albany. Keeping double-parked drivers and shortcut-seekers out of the red bus lanes will make trips faster for transit riders.

The performance boost is sorely needed, with bus ridership stagnating even as subway ridership has boomed.

After the legislature passed the bus lane enforcement bill in June, the Cuomo administration told Streetsblog that it is reviewing the bill. That position hasn't changed.

Here's a photo-op proposition for Team Cuomo: Have the governor sign the bill before hopping on an MTA bus -- say, along Woodhaven Boulevard, where tens of thousands of daily riders stand to benefit from the new cameras.

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