Gov. Kathy Hochul and the MTA announced on Friday service increases for 14 local bus routes in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, effective June 29.<\/p>\n
The enhancements, funded with $8 million from the Outer Borough Transportation Account, aim to improve travel times and reliability for bus riders, particularly during peak hours. Some routes will see wait times reduced by as much as 2.5 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery New Yorker deserves fast, reliable, and accessible public transit, and these enhancements will do just that,\u201d Hochul said in a statement. \u201cBuses are already moving faster thanks to congestion pricing, and now we\u2019re investing in even more service, giving time back to hardworking New Yorkers who keep our city moving. From Co-Op City to Staten Island, we are building a transit system that meets the needs of all New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The improvements build on earlier increases rolled out this year on eight key express bus lines and coincide with the launch of Phase One of the Queens Bus Network redesign, also set to begin June 29.<\/p>\n
Routes seeing increased service<\/strong><\/p>\n The Bronx routes scheduled for increased service include the Bx10 (Riverdale-Norwood), Bx17 (Port Morris-Fordham Plaza), Bx23 (Co-op City\u2013Pelham Bay Park Station), and Bx28\/Bx38 (Co-op City\u2013Fordham Center).<\/p>\n In Brooklyn, the routes are B17 (Crown Heights-Canarsie), B26 (Fulton Street\u2013Ridgewood), B74 (Sea Gate\u2013Stillwell Avenue Station), and B103 (Canarsie\u2013Downtown Brooklyn).<\/p>\n In Queens, service will expand on the Q13 (Flushing\u2013Fort Totten), Q28 (Bayside\u2013Flushing), Q35 (Rockaway Park\u2013Midwood), Q66 (Flushing\u2013Long Island City), and Q69 (Long Island City\u2013Astoria).<\/p>\n On Staten Island, the S79 SBS (Staten Island Mall\u2013Bay Ridge) will see increased service.\n<\/p>\n The improved bus routes target areas underserved by the subway system with high bus ridership.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThese routes are a vital lifeline for many people who don\u2019t live close to subway stations,\u201d said NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow.\n<\/p>\n \u201cIncreasing bus service on some of the City\u2019s busiest routes is a no-brainer,\u201d said MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber. \u201cThese latest enhancements, along with the comprehensive bus network redesigns we\u2019re knocking out borough by borough, are changing the game for the million-plus New Yorkers who ride with us every day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Earlier this year, express bus routes benefiting from service expansions included the BM2, BM5, X27, QM15, SIM1C, SIM4C, SIM23, and SIM24 lines, connecting neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island to Midtown and Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n With congestion pricing expected to reshape travel patterns citywide, officials say the latest improvements reflect a commitment to ensuring outer-borough commuters have better, faster transit options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul and the MTA announced on Friday service increases for 14 local bus routes in Brooklyn,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,18393,12893,18394,9904,18395,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-19586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bus","10":"tag-bus-routes","11":"tag-buses","12":"tag-mta","13":"tag-mta-buses","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114756452616674546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}