I don't like buses. They are pokey but it seems like De Blasio got some things right.
https://gothamist.com/news/borough-b...yfcZrmwHDYVIu0
Promises to improve city bus service have stalled, transit advocates said, so they made a pit stop at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Monday to call on the new mayor to get progress back into gear.
The original Better Buses campaign for better service in New York City launched in 2016 with help from the Bus Turnaround Coalition, which assembled advocacy groups like Riders Alliance and Straphangers Campaign to float policy recommendations to revamp bus routes and increase bus speeds. And while there have been advances as a result of those efforts, advocates said it was time for Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul to put their feet back on the gas.
Pedro Valdez-Rivera, 30, of Riders Alliance, lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant and said the bus route he frequents is often blocked by vehicles in the bus lane.
“There’s so much double parking around the areas of business," he said at the rally. "The bus often has to let us out on the street because the bus is not able to reach the curb.”
Riders Alliance chalked up previous efforts like the 14th Street busway and the Bronx bus route redesign — which is currently underway — as successes under former Mayor Bill de Blasio. They also heralded the installation of transit signal priority, a technology that turns red lights to green when buses approach.
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