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In April 2018, in response to a citywide transit crisis and complaints about the general quality of MTA bus service, the MTA published a Bus Action Plan detailing 28 suggestions to improve the bus system. Within twelve months, targeted corridor improvements were to be implemented, some bus stops would be removed to speed up service, and off ...
Bx41 SBS service would use a new off-street stop at the Gun Hill Intermodal Terminal to improve the connection to the subway. The span of service would increase from being peak-hour-only to operating between 6 a.m. and 9:30 p.m.. Service on the Bx41 would increased 30 percent on weekdays, 22 percent on Saturdays, and 51 percent on Sundays.
A 2011 C40LF (268) on the G.W. Bridge-bound Bx36 at Wadsworth Avenue in Washington Heights. The Bx36 begins at the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal in Washington Heights, Manhattan, and uses West 179th Street, Fort Washington Avenue, and West 178th Street to access Wadsworth Avenue, while buses accessing the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal use West 179th Street.
Local MTA bus routes and NICE and Bee-Line buses also accept coins (though pennies and half-dollars are not accepted on Select Bus Service routes [103]), while MTA buses, Hudson Rail Link, the Roosevelt Island Tram, Airtrain JFK, the subway, and the Staten Island Railway also accept OMNY. [104]
All routes were replaced by LocalLink service. In 2022, MTA Maryland proposed a plan to reintroduce QuickBus-like service with new branding under "QuickLink" to be included in the Fall 2022 service changes. [22] The service proposal would include an east–west limited-stop bus route as a pilot service named QuickLink 40.
Since 2009, the MTA has made several upgrades and expansions to its fleet and facilities. The Flint MTA received a $7.985 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration that was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for new Project 25 digital radio dispatch equipment and mobile data terminals, new intelligent transportation system software and equipment ...
The MTA has installed retail spaces within paid areas in selected stations, including the station concourses of the Times Square–Port Authority complex, the 59th Street–Columbus Circle station, and the 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center station. [69] In the 1980s, the MTA operated around 350 retail spaces in the subway system. [69]
Local elected officials pressured the MTA to eliminate all-local service at these stations. [44] On September 30, 1990, the R was cut back to 71st–Continental Avenue outside of rush hours. Late night service to 179th Street was replaced by G service, while F trains began running local east of 71st Avenue during middays, evenings, and weekends.