{"id":214243,"date":"2026-04-29T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214243\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:35:07","slug":"royal-visit-causes-staten-island-express-bus-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214243\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal visit causes Staten Island express bus delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/\" title=\"Navigate to News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Published: Apr. 29, 2026, 12:12 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"nws express bus\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/67RTKP2EONAW7DXRRDJ2FO3STQ.JPG\"  \/>In this photo from 2024, an express bus that isn&#8217;t in service departs from Staten Island\u2019s Meredith Avenue depot along South Avenue in Travis.  (Advance\/SILive.com | Mike Matteo)Advance\/SILive.com | Mike Matteo<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VDBM63AJEJETHKM7UXOZV35QSI\">All Staten Island express bus routes are running with delays, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"66BFMGAEYREXFICY7FIPVQ4YHA\">As of 11:30 a.m., both directions of Staten Island express routes are running with delays because of traffic in lower Manhattan that was stopped by the NYPD, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/\">MTA alert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JOTLJNZ6RRFGZKXZMBQJCDRCBY\">On X, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2049277488770044161?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2049277488770044161?s=20\">NYPD warned that there would be traffic<\/a> tied to the royal visit to New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2RMLF2AWBVEGTHANIMH4RPNKX4\">\u201cExpect delays and intermittent road closures throughout Manhattan,\u201d the NYPD wrote. \u201cIf you\u2019re [traveling], allow for extra time and use public transportation when possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TN54F4TL35BONCDKLGORXLABBQ\">King Charles III and Queen Camilla will meet with Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday and are expected to visit the 9\/11 Memorial Museum together, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/04\/29\/king-charles-queen-camilla-nyc-visit-traffic-nightmare-boosted-nypd-security-royals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/04\/29\/king-charles-queen-camilla-nyc-visit-traffic-nightmare-boosted-nypd-security-royals\/\">the Daily News reports<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Mike Matteo covers breaking and trending news for the Staten Island Advance\/SILive.com. Matteo, a Staten Island native, graduated from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2023 with a&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsPublished: Apr. 29, 2026, 12:12 p.m.In this photo from 2024, an express bus that isn&#8217;t in service departs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-214243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214243","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=214243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}