With an average weekday speed of 7.4 mph, New York’s buses are among the slowest in the nation, and they’re getting slower. The poor state of bus service in New York amounts to a crisis, said Riders Alliance Executive Director John Raskin. ![]() Today a coalition of transit advocates unveiled their blueprint to fix the city’s surface transit system and win riders back over. The solutions they propose in “ Turnaround: Fixing New York City’s Buses,” a new report from TransitCenter, are broad and thorough but eminently achievable - rethinking the bus network, modernizing fare technology and dispatching, and expanding street design features that have already sped service on a handful of routes to improve routes all over the city. New York can turn things around, advocates say, with a suite of policies to get buses moving quickly and reliably again. Image: TransitCenterīus service in New York is getting worse and losing riders, and unless policy makers step in and make systemwide improvements, those trends may accelerate in a vicious cycle. Bus ridership has dropped 16 percent in NYC since 2002, even as population and subway ridership have increased.
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