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MTA Bus Time, stylized as BusTime, is a Service Interface for Real Time Information, automatic vehicle location (AVL), and passenger information system provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York City for customers of its bus operations under the New York City Bus and MTA Bus Company brands.
MTA New York City Bus operates seven of the express routes in Brooklyn and Queens, which are prefixed with the letter X, as well as all express routes in Staten Island, which are prefixed with the letters SIM .
The fleet consists of over 5,700 buses of various types and models for fixed-route service, making MTA RBO's fleet the largest public bus fleet in the United States. [1] The MTA also has over 2,000 vans and cabs for ADA paratransit service, providing service in New York City, southwestern Nassau County, and the city of Yonkers.
MTA Bus Time app on an iPhone. The MTA has developed several official web and mobile apps for its subway and bus services, and also provides data to private app developers to create their own unofficial MTA apps.
MTA Maryland: Service type: LocalLink, CityLink, Express BusLink: Routes: CityLink: 12 Express BusLink: 9 LocalLink: 44 Total: 65: Hubs: 70+ (Baltimore area) Fleet: Urban bus: 774 Motor coach bus: 68 Total: 842: Daily ridership: 148,500 (weekdays, Q4 2023) Annual ridership: 49,376,400 (2023)
On April 8, 2012, as part of a pilot program that expanded on the 2010 pilot, MTA Bus Time was phased into this route. In April 2012, weekend service on the route was increased. Starting in early 2013, bus bulbs were installed at twelve locations along 34th Street, allowing buses to stay in the bus lane while stopping.
In 2017, New York governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the MTA due to various incidents involving the NYCTA's subway and bus systems. At the time, only 65 percent of weekday trains reached their destinations on time, the lowest rate since a transit crisis in the 1970s.
List of bus routes in Westchester County: Bee-Line 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 20, 21, 25, 26, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 52, 54, 55, 60, 61, 62. All routes are operated under New York City Bus except for the Bx23, which is operated under MTA Bus. Routes marked with an asterisk (*) run 24 hours a day.
Later that year, MTA Bus Time was installed on B61 buses. Bus redesigns. In December 2019, the MTA released a draft redesign of the Queens bus network. The redesign included a "high density" route called the QT1, which would have run from Astoria, Queens, to Downtown Brooklyn.
As a bus route. Bus service numbered the B63 replaced streetcar service on February 20, 1949. In February 2011, the B63 became the first bus route in Brooklyn to test the tracking real time arrival system called MTA Bus Time.