{"id":310935,"date":"2026-07-31T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310935\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:04:09","slug":"bronx-busway-to-open-this-year-ensures-faster-commutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310935\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx Busway To Open This Year, Ensures Faster Commutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever watched a Bronx bus inch along East Tremont Avenue at slower than walking speed, relief may finally be on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Construction will begin next month on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayors-office\/news\/2026\/07\/double-decker--mayor-mamdani-advances-first-busway-in-the-bronx-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Bronx&#8217;s first-ever busway<\/a>, a street redesign that gives buses priority over most private cars in an effort to make one of the borough&#8217;s most frustrating commutes significantly faster. According to the city&#8217;s Department of Transportation, the project is expected to be in place by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The new busway will be a half mile in both directions between Third Avenue and Southern Boulevard on East Tremont Avenue.\u00a0Like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/the-first-ever-major-redesign-of-14th-street-is-happening-soon-031026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manhattan&#8217;s successful 14th Street busway<\/a>, the corridor will restrict through traffic for most private vehicles but let buses, trucks and emergency vehicles move more freely through congestion.\u00a0It&#8217;s a welcome change on a street where the Bx36 currently averages just 5 mph during rush hour\u2014about the speed of a brisk walk.<\/p>\n<p>The project is also one of the first visible pieces of Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s broader plan to speed up bus travel across the city. Earlier this month, the city and MTA unveiled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/press-release\/icymi-governor-hochul-and-mayor-mamdani-unveil-historic-plan-build-fastest-best-bus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a joint initiative<\/a>\u00a0targeting the 50 slowest, busiest bus corridors in New York, with the goal of increasing bus speeds by 20-percent. The strategy includes more dedicated bus lanes, traffic signals that prioritize buses, queue-jump lights that let buses get a head start at intersections and improved bus stops with additional seating and shelters.<\/p>\n<p>East Tremont Avenue will also receive even bigger upgrades beyond this initial busway. The city plans to eventually turn a longer stretch of the corridor, running alongside the Cross Bronx Expressway, into a full bus rapid transit route with dedicated lanes and larger, station-like stops. Public outreach on that phase is expected to begin later this year.<\/p>\n<p>If the Bronx busway performs anything like its Manhattan predecessor, there&#8217;s plenty of reason for optimism: after the 14th Street busway debuted in 2019, the DOT reported that bus speeds increased by roughly 24-percent.<\/p>\n<p>For a borough where buses are a daily necessity for tens of thousands of residents\u2014not just a backup when the subway isn&#8217;t cooperating\u2014that could mean less time staring out the window in traffic and more time actually getting where you need to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;ve ever watched a Bronx bus inch along East Tremont Avenue at slower than walking speed, relief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[957,9,11,10,958,956],"class_list":["post-310935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-categories-travel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news-transport-travel","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310935","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=310935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}