Comments on: NYCT looking to improve bus rapid transit service

By: Austin (Guest)

Austin (Guest) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:14:06 +0000

They do, in order for that to work though they need to have newer updated traffic lights which for large city’s may not be possible because they have 1000’s of traffic lights which would need to be replaced.

By: MTA vows to speed up bus service as M23 takes home a dubious award at Second Ave. Sagas | Blogging the NYC Subways

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:22:01 +0000

[...] wrote about these BRT lanes in July, and my feelings still hold today. If the MTA is going to improve bus service through the use of [...]

By: Welcome to the 21st Century, NYC buses « Second Ave. Sagas | Blogging the NYC Subways

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:59:10 +0000

[...] The New York City buses are the under-appreciated and oft-maligned part of the City’s vibrant public transportation network. Some people swear by the bus system, especially those that run crosstown, while others bemoan the slower-than-walking speeds and unreliable service as evils of the bus system. Still others would like to see the MTA be more aggressive with the buses by working with the Department of Transportation to set up dedicated Bus Rapid Transit lanes. [...]

By: Fate of NYC public transportation could be decided today « Second Ave. Sagas | Blogging the NYC Subways

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:40:03 +0000

[...] of express bus service. In reading the two articles as well as Friday’s post here about the potential arrival of bus rapid transit service, it becomes quite clear why New York needs the money from the federal government and the income [...]

By: Angus Grieve-Smith

Angus Grieve-Smith — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:03:52 +0000

Just to clarify, the current plans for “BRT” are a pale shadow of the Ecuadorian busway in your photo. So far I’ve read the plans for all the boroughs except Staten Island, and (as you note) none of them include any kind of barriers. They don’t include median busways like this, either.

Motorists would be able to park in the curbside lanes and double-park in the “interior” lanes, just as they currently do in bus lanes. The on-bus enforcement cameras you mentioned would be a big help, but it remains to be seen whether legislation allowing these cameras will be passed in Albany. It’s included in the PlaNYC bill introduced in the Senate, but so far no one in the Assembly has introduced anything.

It’s possible that Assemblymember Brodsky will make a civil-liberties issue of it, while continuing to remain silent on the civil-liberties implications of the fact that transit riders are tracked by Metrocard usage, and the fact that intercity bus and train riders are required to show ID and tracked.

I’d love to see one of these Ecuadorian busways installed on Second Avenue, but apparently that’s too far out for New York, and the “BRT” we get will be a relatively small improvement over the current route.

Here are the MTA documents on the BRT program:

http://www.mta.info/mta/planni.....update.htm

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10021 Linkage « — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:16:55 +0000

[...] City looks to improve bus service. [secondavesagas] [...]

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:07:50 +0000

BRT is a step in the right direction.

And as for Bobby Cuza, it’s true: one of my wife’s friends has a TV crush on the intrepid transit reporter.

By: DioNYC

DioNYC — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:38:48 +0000

Question, a little off topic but if buses have the technology to change traffic lights how come emergency vehicles don’t ?