{"id":303052,"date":"2026-07-22T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303052\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:45:09","slug":"mamdani-admin-restarts-bronx-bus-plan-dropped-by-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303052\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani admin restarts Bronx bus plan dropped by Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mamdani administration is restarting work to improve the Fordham Road bus lanes<\/a>, more than two years after they were nixed by the administration of former mayor Eric Adams.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we begin work to deliver major upgrades for faster and more reliable bus service along Fordham Rd.,\u201d NYC Transit Commissioner Mike Flynn told reporters at a Wednesday press conference. \u201cThe way Fordham Rd. works today doesn\u2019t work well for anyone, and the 130,000 bus riders who rely on those buses know that better than anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

The road, a major east-west thoroughfare through the Bronx, is the busiest bus corridor in the borough.<\/p>\n

It was briefly among the bus routes slated for major improvements under Mayor Mamdani\u2019s predecessor, Adams \u2014 whose Department of Transportation explored making the street bus-only, before settling on a plan<\/a> that would move the existing bus lanes in from the curb while still allowing private vehicular traffic on the street.<\/p>\n

But that plan to develop \u201coffset\u201d bus lanes that would allow curbside deliveries while retaining two center lanes for cars and trucks, drew the ire of some local business leaders, as well as Fordham University and the Bronx Zoo.<\/p>\n

The Adams admin caved<\/a>, and the plan was shelved in 2023 in favor of simply repainting the existing curbside bus lanes.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Evan Simko-Bednarski \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

A vehicle blocks the faded bus lane along Fordham Rd. in the Bronx on July 11, 2023. (Evan Simko-Bednarski \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Mamdani teased a restart of the shelved \u201coffset\u201d plan<\/a>, among others, in February. This week, Flynn said, the work begins.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bus lanes today are along the curb,\u201d Flynn said. \u201cThat\u2019s also where businesses need to get their deliveries, where drivers make their pickup and drop-off, and we know there\u2019s a design that can work better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The renewed plan will install the offset lanes along the bulk of Fordham Rd. \u2014 from Bronx Park to Sedgwick Ave.<\/p>\n

Flynn said similar improvements along Hillside Ave. in Queens have sped up buses by 28%.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur pledge on Fordham Rd. is to increase speeds by at least 20%, and we won\u2019t stop making upgrades until we hit that target,\u201d Flynn said.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Evan Simko-Bednarski \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

A vehicle blocks the faded bus lane along Fordham Rd. in the Bronx on July 11, 2023. (Evan Simko-Bednarski \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Fordham Rd. is home to the Bx12, Bx9, Bx17 and Bx22 bus routes, which travel down the corridor at an average speed of 5mph, Flynn said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBronx bus riders deserve better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the presser, State Sen. Gustavo Rivera (D, Bronx) lauded the return to the bus lane plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re celebrating is the ability of people \u2026 to not have to move their damn car,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n

After a passer-by interrupted the press conference by approaching the lectern to banter, Rivera took it in stride. \u201cWe want to make buses faster so that folks can go and crash press conferences quicker,\u201d he deadpanned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mamdani administration is restarting work to improve the Fordham Road bus lanes, more than two years after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,10,12,63,608],"class_list":["post-303052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303052","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=303052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}