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Better Buses Will Be Big for Business on Flatbush: Report

Mayor Adams has yet to follow through on his promise to bring bus lanes to Flatbush Avenue, where 70 percent of bus riders are going to shopping, dining or entertainment destinations.

December 12, 2024

DOT Commish: ‘We Are Doing A Great Job’ … Falling Short of Bus Lane Requirement

New York City is going to end 2024 having painted the smallest number of bus lanes in six years, and if you ask the person in charge of the Department of Transportation, that's fine.

December 4, 2024

DOT: Tremont Ave. Busway to Be Installed in Spring

The 0.6-mile busway will only allow trucks and buses to use the entire stretch, while car drivers will need to leave the street at the first available turn.

November 11, 2024

Adams’s Fifth Avenue Plan Will Make Bus Riders Suffer: Experts

The Fifth Avenue plan is bad news for bus riders, experts say.

October 22, 2024

A ‘Fine’ Mess: City to Expand Encouragement for Truckers to Double-Park

The Adams administration is proposing to reduce fines paid by some trucking firms for three dangerous parking violations as part of revisions of a program that then-Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said shouldn't even exist.

October 22, 2024

Brooklyn College Students Pressure Adams to Fix Flatbush Ave. Buses After Years of Delays

Brooklyn College students and transit advocates walked four miles up Flatbush Avenue on Thursday to call attention to Mayor Adams's refusal to improve bus service there.

October 18, 2024

‘Surrender’: Adams Cuts Bus, Bike Lanes From Fifth Ave. Plan

Fifth Avenue will get more sidewalk, but bus riders and cyclists have to make way for the almighty car.

October 17, 2024

Friday Video: A Vision for West 72nd Street

Maybe someday, a roadway that devotes 88 percent of its space to a tiny minority of users (drivers) could finally work for everyone. We can dream, can't we?

October 11, 2024

Self-Proclaimed Bus Lane Champion Gale Brewer Tries To Tank Bus Lane

The former Manhattan borough president cynically cited her past support for bus priority streets at a rally to cut two blocks out of a badly needed bus lane project.

September 5, 2024

FOIL’D: MTA Leadership Assailed DOT for Failing to Boost Fordham Road Bus Speeds

Mayor Adams's strategy of new paint and "enhanced enforcement" resulted in a puny 2-to-4 percent improvement to Fordham Road bus speeds, according to MTA data.

August 16, 2024