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Woodhaven Select Bus Service May Get Physical Separation in Some Areas
After unveiling the preferred design for six miles of the Woodhaven Boulevard Select Bus Service project earlier this week, DOT and MTA met yesterday with advocates, elected officials, and community board members to go into greater detail. The agencies are considering physical separation for bus lanes at key locations on Woodhaven, and they showed potential designs for the southern stretch of the project on Cross Bay Boulevard.
March 27, 2015
Bus Driver Hits Woman at Intersection Where CB 9 Opposes Safety Fixes
Yesterday, a bus driver hit a woman walking across W. 135th Street at Riverside Drive, an intersection in a crash-prone area where DOT has proposed a slate of safety improvements that are opposed by Manhattan Community Board 9.
March 27, 2015
Utica Avenue Select Bus Service Will Roll Out This Fall
The B46 is the second-busiest bus route in New York City, carrying nearly 50,000 passengers each day. A subway line on Utica was planned decades ago but never built, and today bus riders on the B46 struggle with crowded conditions and slow trips. Now service is set to get faster and more reliable with the addition of bus lanes and off-board fare collection later this year [PDF].
March 20, 2015
The Trans-Hudson Transit Crunch Keeps Getting Tougher to Fix
When news broke earlier this week that replacing the Port Authority Bus Terminal would cost $11 billion, advocates were skeptical. At a board meeting today, many Port Authority commissioners, while recognizing the need to replace and expand the terminal, joined in that skepticism.
March 19, 2015
Does a New Port Authority Bus Terminal Really Cost $11 Billion?
It hit this morning's headlines with a thud: Replacing the aged, overburdened Port Authority Bus Terminal will cost up to a staggering $11 billion, according to a plan to be presented to the Port Authority's board on Thursday. But is that figure based in reality?
March 17, 2015
MTA Refuses to Test Simple Bus Design Fix That Could Save Lives
Council Member Antonio Reynoso has introduced a resolution calling on the MTA to install rear wheel side guards, which keep pedestrians and cyclists from being crushed beneath the wheels of a bus. The equipment is already used on buses in cities across the country, but the MTA says it's not interested in installing sideguards on its vehicles.
March 12, 2015
Mark Levine Launches Petition to Bring 125th Street Bus Lanes West of Lenox
You don't see this level of political commitment to repurposing street space that often.
March 3, 2015
Parents of Seth Kahn: Ineffective MTA Protocols Contributed to Son’s Death
After Wednesday’s MTA board meeting transit chief Tom Prendergast said the agency may revise bus routes to reduce the number of turns bus drivers have to make, in order to minimize conflicts between buses and pedestrians, according to the Daily News. Prendergast said another possibility would be to move crosswalks away from intersections where buses make turns, which would necessitate streetscape changes by DOT.
February 27, 2015
Will DA Ken Thompson Drop Case Against Bus Driver Who Killed Senior?
On the evening of December 23, 2014, 78-year-old Jean Bonne-Annee was crossing New York Avenue at Farragut Road in Brooklyn when an MTA bus driver ran him over while making a left turn.
February 25, 2015
De Blasio Defends Right-of-Way Law to Dimwits in Albany [Updated]
Update [February 26]: The quote from the mayor has been updated to include his full response.
February 25, 2015