The mayor of new York bill de Blasio on Friday announced the global expansion of the network of rapid transit routes display includes NYC’s Select Bus Service, which connects the 5 districts. 21 new bus route, in addition to the already existing 14, will be in the city in the next decade. The greatest number of new routes will be added in Queens (8).
For the program, the city will allocate $ 270 million. Currently, about 12% bus committed in the city, are on the bus SBS. According to the forecasts of the mayor, the use of SBS should increase to 30% in the coming years.
Great differences speed buses Select Bus Service are that the movement they perform in a dedicated lane, making fewer stops along the route and tickets can not buy in the bus, and, for example, online, which cuts down travel time.
Not paid attention to the mayor and to the existing routes, and promised infrastructure improvements, which will contribute to the acceleration of movement.
De Blasio said that SBS is already working on three new routes which will be completed by the end of this year: on Fifth Avenue in Midtown, Fulton Street and Fort Greene and on Main Street in Flushing.
A joint program of the Department of transport in the city, the MTA and SBS started in the Bronx in 2008. At the time when the city was headed by bill de Blasio, in new York there was already 6 existing SBS routes. Since then, their number has increased to 14.
New Yorkers take 2.5 million rides on our buses every day. With 21 new Select Bus Service routes, folks can get around faster. pic.twitter.com/4WTVzBsOUS
— Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) October 20, 2017
Together w/ @MTA we’ve ID d 21 candidate corridors for #SBS. Read DOT’s #BusForward report on planned expansion here https://t.co/IZVhfdoRkR pic.twitter.com/eZkxuhd3Ud
— NYC DOT (@NYC_DOT) October 20, 2017
