Photo: David Meyerīut the mayor can take steps to get city employees, taxis and other drivers from parking in bus lanes. Activists reenacted the experience of sitting in a crowded bus amidst a sea of single-occupancy vehicles. The MTA is pushing for that legislation, the state agency has said. Ultimately, NYPD can’t be everywhere at every moment - true citywide bus lane enforcement requires cameras, which can only be implemented with Albany’s approval.
If Mayor de Blasio implements it, city bus speeds would improve to 11 miles per hour, up from 6.7 MPH, and the rate of buses arriving in bunches would decline to 5 percent, from more than 13 percent, the group says.īehind simply painting more bus lanes, the mayor has an essential role to play in ensuring they are respected and enforced. On Tuesday, the Bus Turnaround Coalition - comprising Riders Alliance, NYPIRG’s Straphangers Campaign, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, and TransitCenter - added its voice in the form of a “Fast Bus, Fair City” campaign that also calls for improved bus lane enforcement and technology to give buses more green lights, known as transit signal priority. The call for city action comes after the MTA unveiled its “Bus Action Plan,” a multi-pronged approach to speeding surface transit that relies partly on the city to step up enforcement of bus lane blockers and add bus lanes, among other improvements. Activists want another 100 within five years, 60 before de Blasio moves out of Gracie Mansion. Everybody’s competing for space, but when you move two million trips a day in the buses of New York City, you got to get dedicated lanes.”Ĭurrently, the city has 120 miles of bus lanes. Patafio, who runs the surface transit division of the TWU Local 100, the MTA’s largest union. “It’s really simple. Traffic is killing bus service,” said J.P.
“Traffic is what’s killing this transit system.
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With bus ridership in free fall, MTA drivers joined other activists in the Bus Turnaround Coalition in a rally at City Hall to demand that the city address congestion, which is one problem it can’t fully blame on the state. the bus finally comes then he tells me the bus driver that he's only going to make the last stop at Cross Bay really I'm going to pay $2.75 to go a few blocks is he kidding me his job is supposed to be the last stop at 164th Street and Howard Beach that would be my stop but unfortunately lazy bus driver want to get off at Crossbay got some pair of balls bad enough you're paying almost $3 for a bus ride and they can't even take you part of the way they want to take you no way cuz they getting off on their break give me a break it's not your break you just a lazy bus driver and you figured if there's nobody on the bus you can just pass everybody else by I know all about it and all these bus drivers that come to Howard Beach roll bunch of bastards that's how I feel about the 41 bus and this ain't the first complaint I made the bus driver is on the 41 bus don't do their job don't want to do this job and they're lazy doing their job the pickup who they feel like picking up and passed by the people that don't feel like picking up wish I had a job like that wish I made the money they make and have the attitude they have when you get on a bus they don't even have the decency to say hello you're paying the fair next like you to say hello well hello and goodbye to that I'm a consumer and a customer on a bus and don't get treated right because you live in Howard Beach I know all about it and that's a bunch of *** maybe some people that are not nice around him the first to tell you but I ain't one of them and I don't deserve to be treated like the rest of them so now I got to walk home in the cold because of the 41 bus I don't think so tired of the 41 work hard to pay for a bus and it never wants to stop want to just pass you by well remember something bus driver if it wasn't for people that work you wouldn't have a job think about that 41 bus that stops in St Helen's School at 6 p.m.Mayor de Blasio must greatly expand dedicated bus lanes before his term expires in 2021 - and on Tuesday, he heard it from the people who know best: Bus operators themselves. What happened I'll tell you waiting for the 41 bus in front of St Helen's School at Howard Beach at 6 p.m.
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