NYC DOT and NYC Transit have begun presenting at Bronx community boards to help promote the June 29 launch of NYC’s first bus rapid transit route along Pelham Parkway and Fordham Road in the Bronx. The new service, known as Select Bus Service, has distinct features that will make riding the bus a new experience for transit riders along the corridor.
As MTR wrote earlier, Select Bus fares will be paid under a “proof of payment” system where riders would pay at stations and show a receipt if asked by on-board fare collectors. This will shorten delay caused as passengers pay one by one at the head of the bus. Bx12 Select buses will also have traffic signal priority, gaining the ability to extend green lights and shorten red lights by several seconds when behind schedule. Finally, the Select route will include bus lanes between the Bronx Zoo and Cedar Avenue, as well as between the Broadway/207 St and 10th Ave. subway stations in Manhattan.
The two agencies have already met with Bronx CB 11, and are meeting with four other community boards whose districts border the new route. Come out and see how and why your bus commute is getting better!
Bronx Community Board 6 – June 5th (today) @ CB6 – 1932 Arthur Avenue, # 709 – 6:30pm
Bronx Community Board 10 – June 9th @ CB10 – 3165 East Tremont Avenue – 7:30pm
Bronx Community Board 7 – June 11th @ Fordham Bronx Library Center – 310 E. Kingsbridge Road – 6:30pm
Bronx Community Board 5 – June 18th @ The Davidson Community Center – 2038 Davidson Avenue (just off Burnside Avenue) – 6:00pm
(full Bx12 route under the cut:)
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What the bx needs is not more buses or express or rapid buses these are nicknames for BUSES. What the Bronx needs a subway line that connects the hubs that the BX 12 currently runs. Over crowded streets with both pedestrians and vehicles is not enhanced by placing another bus which will have gadgets to which run faster in a saturated commercial strip and parkway.
Not sure who put the map together, but as long as it’s noting subway transfers, it should note the transfer to Metro-North’s Harlem and New Haven lines at Fordham Plaza, and a transfer to Metro-North’s Hudson Line at the Cedar Avenue station (via a two-block walk).