{"id":208597,"date":"2026-04-24T18:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208597\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:12:12","slug":"madison-avenue-double-bus-lane-extension-kicks-off-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208597\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Avenue double bus lane extension kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city has begun extending the double bus lanes on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, kick-starting a project that had been put on pause, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n

The redesign, which will span from East 42nd Street to East 23rd Street, is set to make buses faster and more reliable for thousands of New Yorkers who commute along the avenue each day, the city Department of Transportation said in a release.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

The city Department of Transportation has begun extending the double bus lanes on Madison Avenue from East 42nd Street down to East 23rd Street
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The DOT proposed the extension last year, with plans to start construction then, but the project was put on pause, \u201cdelaying critical improvements for transit riders,” the agency said
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The agency said it will complete construction over the next few weeks, weather permitting<\/p>\n

The DOT proposed the extension last year<\/a>, with plans to start construction then, but the project was put on pause, \u201cdelaying critical improvements for transit riders,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n

Madison Avenue currently has two bus lanes, two travel lanes and a parking lane between East 60th and East 42nd streets that serve 34 local and express bus routes, but the two bus lanes don\u2019t extend below East 42nd Street.<\/p>\n

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(Courtesy of the New York City Department of Transportation)<\/p>\n

Once the redesign is complete, the avenue will have two bus lanes and a travel lane between East 42nd and East 23rd streets; a parking lane with left turn pockets between East 23rd and East 34th streets; and a parking and rush hour travel lane between East 34th and East 42nd streets, according to the release. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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(Courtesy of the New York City Department of Transportation)<\/p>\n

The DOT said it will complete construction over the next few weeks, weather permitting.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor too long, New Yorkers have been forced to watch critical infrastructure projects be slowed, scaled back, or scrapped altogether by an administration that lacked urgency. That ends now,\u201d Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement. \u201cBy moving forward with work on Madison, we are choosing a city that works for the many, not the few.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery weekday,\u00a0nearly\u00a0100,000\u00a0bus riders from all five boroughs are stuck crawling along\u00a0Madison Avenue\u00a0at walking speed,\u201d DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn added in his own statement. \u201cThe snail\u2019s pace of buses and the unpredictable commutes steal precious time from working New Yorkers that could otherwise be spent with their families and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

A previous double bus lane redesign along Fifth Avenue<\/a> saw local bus speeds improve between\u00a06%\u00a0and 12%, and express bus speeds improve between 11%\u00a0and 20%, the release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city has begun extending the double bus lanes on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, kick-starting a project that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[25,297,82730,128,75,9,24,12,63,73913,129,131,130,27,2023,296],"class_list":{"0":"post-208597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-app-traffic-and-transit","10":"tag-app-traffic-inbox","11":"tag-bronx","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sarah-ng","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","20":"tag-the-bronx-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-traffic","23":"tag-traffic-and-transit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}