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Select Bus Service Comes to Brooklyn
Yesterday was the first day of service for Brooklyn's first Select Bus Service route, upgrading the B44 Limited with a dedicated bus lane, off-board fare collection, bus bulbs, and fewer stops. It's the sixth SBS route to enter service, following two in the Bronx, two in Manhattan, and one in Staten Island.
November 18, 2013
Bus Time Went Live in Manhattan This Morning
After signs went up in subway stations last week, the MTA made it official this morning: real-time bus tracking is now available for all Manhattan buses, joining Staten Island and the Bronx, with Queens and Brooklyn to come online within six months.
October 7, 2013
MTA Plans Busway Beneath the M Train in Ridgewood
The MTA is working on a plan for a short busway in Ridgewood that would run for six-tenths of a mile beneath the elevated M tracks, between Fresh Pond Road and Palmetto Street. While the project wouldn't transform a car-choked traffic sewer into a pedestrian-friendly transit boulevard (the right-of-way is currently a series of weed-strewn parking lots), it could be NYC's first new separated busway since the Fulton Mall opened in the 1970s.
October 4, 2013
Bus Time Set to Expand to Manhattan This Month; Queens and Brooklyn Next
Nearly a year after the Bronx became the second borough to get real-time bus tracking on all its buses, the MTA's Bus Time program is set to expand to Manhattan this month, according to signs spotted in Manhattan subway stations by Twitter user David Rose and Second Avenue Sagas.
October 3, 2013
Genielle Laboriel, 21, Killed by Bus Driver in the Bronx; No Charges Filed
A school bus driver struck and killed a woman who was riding a skateboard in the Melrose section of the Bronx yesterday.
October 3, 2013
Eyes on the Street: Painting SBS Bus Lanes on Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn's B44 bus carried more than 12.5 million passengers last year between the base of the Williamsburg Bridge and Sheepshead Bay, making it the city's fifth-busiest bus route. But the B44, which runs primarily along Nostrand Avenue, is notoriously unreliable and spends less than half of each run in motion. Half the time, it's stuck in traffic or at bus stops and red lights.
September 26, 2013
Will Letters From Two Uptown Electeds Get DOT to Restart 125th Street SBS?
The plan for 125th Street Select Bus Service died on the vine after a lack of support from community boards and elected officials. But now, Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito [PDF] and State Senator Adriano Espaillat [PDF], along with council candidate Mark Levine, are asking Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan to restart plans to bring SBS to the crosstown route.
August 20, 2013
Kenneth Yard, 65, Killed by MTA Bus Driver and Unforgiving NYC Streets
A man who stepped out of his car onto Rockaway Boulevard was struck and killed by an MTA bus driver Sunday.
August 14, 2013
Quinn Proposes Triboro BRT Line With Separated Bus Lanes
Since Scott Stringer left the mayoral field for the comptroller race, the mayoral candidates haven't spoken much about the Triboro RX, a plan to bring circumferential rail service to Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx using existing tracks and rights of way. But they have spoken highly, if not very specifically, of Bus Rapid Transit. And a few have zeroed in on the transit needs of outer-borough communities, where job growth is outpacing Manhattan, but commute times are lengthening.
July 26, 2013
Lander Intros Bill to Push NYC Bus Service to the Next Level
Yesterday, Council Member Brad Lander introduced a bill that would require DOT, in consultation with the MTA and the public, to create a citywide master plan for developing Bus Rapid Transit.
July 25, 2013