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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.
Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled Monday which five bus routes will be part of "Fare Free," a transit pilot program that's exactly what it sounds like. The routes that will offer free rides by September are:
The long-awaited fare capping pilot will start seven days a week starting Feb. 28, MTA officials said.
The proposed bus would run every 12 minutes or 20 minutes during peak and off-peak weekday hours, respectively, with regular (but more infrequent) weekend service. Find out more on page 311 here ...
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.
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.
ASTORIA, QUEENS — A contentious borough-wide bus redesign plan got a revamp this week, as the MTA (once again) sets its sights on speeding up commutes and modernizing redundant bus routes for ...
The B47 is a surface transit line on Ralph Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City. Once a streetcar line, [3] it is now part of the B47 bus route, operated by the New York City Transit Authority, Prior to 1995, it was the B78 route; the northern part of the route from St. Johns Place to Woodhull Hospital was part of the B40 line.