Yesterday morning, Bus Rapid Transit service in New York City made its long-awaited and highly anticipated debut. While we won’t enjoy camera-enforced dedicated bus lanes thanks to this absurd Representative from Rochester, I received a few missives from readings clamoring to find out how day one went. To that end, both The Times and Streetsblog covered it on the big day.
The short of it is that riders were slightly confused at first by the new pre-boarding fare options while the service itself is being praised. But the long of it is that, just as how a one-week stretch is too small a sample size in, say, baseball to assess a player, so too is one day of BRT service too small a sample to analyze the lasting impact of this new bus service on transportation in New York City. The City does, since it refused to build physically separated bus lanes, need to address the problem of people parking in what are supposed to be dedicated bus lanes sooner rather than later. [Streetsblog, The New York Times]
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