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The following is a first-hand account from Tri-State associate director Veronica Vanterpool: Yesterday morning, I rode to our Manhattan office aboard the newly launched Bx12 Select Bus Service. As a Bronx resident, I was eager to see how the three-day-old system was working and how bus riders were responding to the change. I boarded at [...] Bee-Line Bus riders on Central Ave. in Westchester could be getting major improvements in service, with buses every 10 minutes, more and better bus shelters, and speedier and more reliable travel times. That’s the potential of the Westchester Dept. of Transportation’s Central Avenue Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) study, which held its second open house on [...] Westchester County has repeatedly shown that smart transportation policy isn’t confined to cities like NYC and New Haven. Kudos to County planners for some well-deserved press recognition of their efforts on bicycle, housing, and transit issues: Earlier this month, the New York Times covered the County’s efforts to build a four-mile separated bicycle path along Westchester [...]
Bx12 Select buses greeted attendees of the “Buses in the Boroughs” symposium Tuesday morning. With spring colors and fragrance in full bloom at the New York Botanical Garden Tuesday morning, TSTC along with Transportation Alternatives, the Straphangers Campaign, and the Pratt Center for Community Development hosted a symposium on bus rapid transit to showcase [...] Highlighting the potential of bus rapid transit to vastly improve commutes and to provide a briefing on the City and MTA’s plans to roll out bus rapid transit around the boroughs this year, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, Pratt Center for Community Development, Straphangers’ Campaign, and Transportation Alternatives are hosting a half-day program on April 15 [...] TSTC’s website now includes an online clearinghouse of information on bus rapid transit, a transit mode which can combine rail’s speed and reliability with buses’ service flexibility and is being explored throughout the region. The clearinghouse explains what bus rapid transit (BRT) is, how it compares to other modes, how it can be implemented in [...] The news that NYSDOT was “tiering” the Tappan Zee Bridge/I-287 corridor project into separate phases was surprising enough (MTR ran stories on the announcement of the split and on an ominous precedent). But a scoping update document (PDF), made public by the study team last week, contains additional surprises. The NYSDOT project involves the replacement [...] |
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