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Bus Lanes Coming to 125th Street in West Harlem This Summer
Bus riders may not be stuck in crosstown traffic on 125th Street much longer. DOT plans to extend bus lanes from Lenox Avenue to Morningside Avenue this summer [PDF].
April 3, 2015
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
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
U.S. Transit Ridership Continued Upward Climb in 2014, Thanks to NYC
Transit ridership continued to climb in American cities last year, even as gas prices sank. The American Public Transit Association is out with new data on the number of transit trips in the United States -- 10.8 billion in 2014, the highest in 58 years.
March 9, 2015
Koch Brothers Loom Over Maryland’s Purple Line Fight
Look whose envoy has been dispatched to undermine Maryland's Purple Line. Once again, Randal O'Toole of the Koch brothers-funded Cato Institute has been deployed to attack a light rail project in distress.
February 26, 2015
Maryland Gov Larry Hogan Plays Chicken With Purple Line Funding
Newly elected Maryland Governor Larry Hogan says he's putting off bids on the Purple Line light rail project in an attempt to cut costs, but the delay could also jeopardize the whole project by putting federal funding at risk.
February 24, 2015
Eastern Queens Electeds Want Bus Lanes. Will DOT Deliver?
Council Member Rory Lancman and Assembly Member Michael Simanowitz have taken up the cause of opposing bus lanes for Select Bus Service in their eastern Queens districts. While the pair has gotten a lot of attention, they are outnumbered by almost a dozen city, state, and federal elected officials along the route urging the city to be bolder with its bus service upgrades.
February 19, 2015
St. Louis Stunner Runs Away With the Vote for America’s Sorriest Bus Stop
In the end, it was never even close. This bus stop on Lindbergh Boulevard in suburban St. Louis won wire-to-wire in the voting for the Sorriest Bus Stop in America.
February 13, 2015
RPA: Growing Outer Boroughs Need New Generation of Transit Investment
With the boroughs outside Manhattan adding people and jobs faster than the city core, New York needs to reorient its transit priorities, argues the Regional Plan Association in a new report. The authors warn that increasing travel in the other boroughs will strain the local bus system and lead more people to drive, causing more traffic congestion and imposing the burden of car ownership on more low- and middle-income New Yorkers.
February 11, 2015
Bus Rapid Transit, Not Ferry Subsidies, Would Help Struggling New Yorkers
In today's State of the City address, Mayor de Blasio returned to his signature campaign issues of affordability and equity. Focusing mainly on housing, the mayor outlined a plan for growth centered around transit-accessible neighborhoods, and he recommitted to building several new Bus Rapid Transit routes.
February 3, 2015