Buses
Select Bus Service Gets The Job Done
Last week I wrote a couple of entries (1 & 2) discussing the Select Bus Service that debuted on the Bx12. While some had a knee jerk reaction to the service, others have raved about its initial success. 5 days ago the associate director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, Veronica Vanterpool shared her first hand [...]
MTA Talks About Select Bus Service
Bx12 approaching the Pelham Bay Park station. Resized photo courtesy of Eye On Transit
The MTA’s New York City Transit division issued a press release discussing Select Bus Service. Here is the release courtesy of the MTA:
MTA New York City Transit, in collaboration with NYC Department of Transportation (DOT), is rolling out Select Bus Service (SBS), [...]
Knee Jerk Reaction To Debut Of Select Bus Service
Yesterday marked the debut of Select Bus Service on the Bx12. The goal of the service is to cut travel time by up to 20% by implementing such measures as letting passengers pay before boarding, allowing entrance to the bus via the front & back doors, dedicated bus lanes, traffic signal priority, & more.
All [...]
Teens Turned Away From A City Bus
A trip for two teenage girls trying to pick up their report cards turned into more than they bargained for on Friday. The teens were going to pick up their report cards from Bishop Kearney High School when they ran into problems due to their student MetroCards expiring. Pete Donohue & Carrie Melago of the [...]
Streetsblog Continues To Expose David Gantt
As you know by now, a major transportation bill that would benefit bus riders & drivers got defeated by the State Assembly Transportation Committee. The perpetrator behind this was the chairman of the State Assembly Transportation Committee, David Gantt. Ben Fried of Streetsblog has been all over the chairman since this bill was defeated (rightfully [...]
Bus Riders Still Skeptical
Jess Wisloski of the New York Daily News has a report up about the frustration of bus riders who aired their gripes at the annual town hall meeting with MTA officials. Here is her report:
Bus riders in Queens showed up in force last week at the annual town hall hearing on the quality of the [...]
M103 Service Alert Details
Earlier this morning, I posted an entry about a M103 service alert which led to the detours which are still in place as I write this entry. The incident referred to in the service alert was the result of a dump truck hitting a Fung Wah bus. Sewell Chan of the New York Times City [...]
Clear Display Of Nepotism
The last post I made on this blog before I disappeared in January for a few months was about a bus reroute which clearly benefited the then newly appointed MTA Chairman Dale Hemmerdinger. Now months later, the bus reroute situation has come back into the spotlight. Here is the report from AMNY’s Matthew Sweeney:
A handful [...]
