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NEW YORK, NY — New York City's bus system — the slowest in the nation — has lost 100 million passengers over the past eight years, indicating its failure to keep up with the city's changing ...
2017–2021 New York City transit crisis. In 2017, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) due to ongoing reliability and crowding problems with mass transit in New York City. This order applied particularly to the New York City Subway, which was the most severely affected ...
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — New York City's bus system is falling into catastrophe even as the subways inch toward stability, transit advocates said Thursday. Nearly three quarters of the city's 246 ...
The vehicles collided as the MTA bus turned right from Main Street onto Northern Boulevard, in Flushing, around 6:15 a.m. One of the dead was a pedestrian who "was simply walking down the sidewalk ...
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, [2] or simply Transit, [3] and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City. Part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest and largest transit system in ...
A corresponding bus crisis was not covered as heavily in the media, but in November 2017, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer identified several causes for the bus system's unreliability. [ 179 ] [ 180 ] The average speeds of New York City buses were found to be 7 to 8 miles per hour (11 to 13 km/h), [ 179 ] the slowest of any major bus ...
These 5 MTA Bus Routes Will Be Free By This Fall - New York City, NY - Nearly 44,000 weekday riders will see their bus go "Fare Free" for six to 12 months, officials announced Monday.
In 2008, the bus operations of New York City Transit and MTA Bus Company (as well as the now former Long Island Bus division) were merged into a new regional operation, MTA Regional Bus Operations. The New York City Bus and MTA Bus brands continue to be used on all buses, but New York City Transit (NYCT), Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit ...