Soon the inhabitants of the Big Apple won’t have to travel to distant lands to ride on a double-Decker bus. Such vehicles will run on Staten island.
MTA will begin using the unusual for new York city buses in the framework of the project called Bus Action Plan It seeks to modernize the transport network, which is losing ground due to insufficient responsiveness of transport.
If double-Decker buses will successfully cope with the task in one borough, they can run all over the city.
In addition to the introduction of larger transport, the preliminary plan presented on Monday by the President of the MTA Andy Bagorda, implies a revision of the bus route and optimization of conditions for their operation on city streets.
Today the average speed of local buses in the Big Apple is only 12 km/h, which is much less than in any major US city.
Perhaps for this reason, over the past 10 years the passenger traffic has decreased by 14%. With the advent of Uber and Lyft, new Yorkers are less buses, despite cheaper tickets.
