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The Port Authority Bus Terminal and Our Glaring Lack of Transit Leadership
The effort to replace the aging and overcrowded Port Authority Bus Terminal continues to suffer from the New York region's inability to coordinate its transit mega-projects.
September 24, 2015
How About a Transit System Where No One Has “No Good Options”?
A lengthy FiveThirtyEight article today by Nate Silver and Reuben Fischer-Baum crunches some data to arrive at two major insights: First, New Yorkers use Uber much like they use taxis, and second, for-hire cars are used primarily by well-off New Yorkers to supplement transit in close-in neighborhoods, not to replace car ownership in the outer boroughs.
August 28, 2015
MTA Bus Driver Kills Senior in Midtown; NYPD, Media Blame Deceased Victim
An MTA bus driver killed a senior in Midtown this morning.
August 20, 2015
Eyes on the Street: West 125th Street Gets Its Bus Lanes
It's finally happening. More than a year after bus lanes were installed on 125th Street east of Lenox Avenue, the first signs have appeared that DOT will soon be painting red bus-only lanes in West Harlem.
August 19, 2015
Eyes on the Street: New Bus Lanes Arrive on Woodhaven Blvd
It's not quite Select Bus Service, but it's a step in the right direction: A pair of long-awaited bus lanes are rolling out on Woodhaven Boulevard.
August 7, 2015
Levine and Rodriguez Press DOT to Implement West Harlem Bus Lanes ASAP
Transit advocates and Upper Manhattan elected officials gathered this morning at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 125th Street to urge DOT to extend bus lanes on 125th Street to West Harlem as soon as possible.
July 16, 2015
DOT and MTA Launch M86 Select Bus Service
Electeds and other city officials today launched M86 Select Bus Service, which should reduce travel times for thousands of New Yorkers.
July 13, 2015