The Bronx is set to get its first busway later this year as the city revives a project to transform a Tremont Avenue corridor that serves 39,000 daily riders.<\/p>\n
The plans call for safety improvements at eight intersections to shorten pedestrian crossing distances and slow turning vehicles, an eastbound busway from Third Avenue to Southern Boulevard, a westbound busway from Southern Boulevard to Belmont Avenue, and an offset shared bus-and-bike lane eastbound from Webster Avenue to Third Avenue.<\/p>\n
City officials say the city\u2019s busways \u2014 lanes reserved for buses, emergency vehicles and trucks, enforced by bus-mounted cameras and the NYPD \u2014 have been shown to boost bus speeds by as much as 60% and reduce injuries by up to 45%.<\/p>\n
Tremont Avenue has been one of the most dangerous streets in the Bronx: The city noted that 630 people were injured in crashes along the corridor from 2020 to 2024, including 46 severe injuries and four deaths. And buses in the corridor are among the city\u2019s slowest, averaging as slow as 5 mph for some routes.<\/p>\n
Also Wednesday, the mayor\u2019s office said it has opened a feedback portal<\/a> and has plans for a series of meetings to gather input on three of Brooklyn\u2019s busiest transit corridors: Flatbush Avenue, Utica Avenue and Church Avenue. A combined 13 routes there serve about 150,000 daily bus riders.<\/p>\n \u201cNew Yorkers should not lose hours of their lives sitting in traffic on a bus. From the Bronx to Brooklyn, we\u2019re building streets that move people instead of sticking them in gridlock,\u201d Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement. \u201cThese projects will make commutes faster, make our streets safer and return precious time to nearly 200,000 New Yorkers every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n Mamdani touted the plan<\/a> as a continuation of his campaign pledge to improve the city\u2019s notoriously slow bus service. The announcement comes a week after Mamdani and the state-controlled MTA announced a new plan to speed up buses<\/a> for 2 million New Yorkers along some of the most sluggish routes in the city. Last month, Mamdani gave the green light to a similar busway plan for 34th Street<\/a> in Midtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bronx is set to get its first busway later this year as the city revives a project…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-296482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296482","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=296482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}