Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city\u2019s Department of Transportation announced Wednesday the redesign of bus lanes on Fordham Road in the Bronx.<\/p>\n
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city\u2019s Department of Transportation announced Wednesday the redesign of bus lanes on Fordham Road in the Bronx
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The project will add new offset bus lanes from Sedgwick Avenue and Boston Road in an effort to make the commute faster and more reliable for 130,000 daily bus riders, the news release said
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According to the news release, in that section of the Bronx, 62% of households do not have access to a private vehicle and 71% of residents rely on public transit or other ways of transportation to get around.<\/p>\n
The project will add new offset bus lanes from Sedgwick Avenue and Boston Road in an effort to make the commute faster and more reliable for 130,000 daily bus riders, the news release said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not only promising fast buses, we\u2019re delivering them,\u201d Mayor Zohran Mamdani wrote in a statement. \u201cThis year, Fordham Road riders won\u2019t have to watch their time disappear in traffic while cars block bus lanes that were meant for people.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the news release, in that section of the Bronx, 62% of households do not have access to a private vehicle and 71% of residents rely on public transit or other ways of transportation to get around.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis redesign will give bus riders much-needed relief with faster and more reliable service while managing vehicle traffic in the area. Where we\u2019ve installed similar designs, we\u2019ve seen bus speeds increase as much as 28%, and we\u2019ll continue monitoring the corridor for further improvements as needed,\u201d Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n
The redesign would update Fordham Road\u2019s curbside lanes to offset lanes to better split buses from traffic, and will also provide parking and loading spaces for local businesses, according to the DOT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city\u2019s Department of Transportation announced Wednesday the redesign of bus lanes on Fordham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[25,1084,313,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,129,27,296,142,200],"class_list":["post-302694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-traffic-transit","tag-deanna-garcia","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-the-bronx","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic-and-transit","tag-transit","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302694","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=302694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}