Millions of New Yorkers ride MTA buses every day, but many Bronx riders say the system is anything but reliable \u2014 and the Bx32 is their proof.<\/p>\n
Karen Washington says it\u2019s no surprise the Bx32 is one of two Bronx routes given an \u201cF\u201d rating by the city comptroller. With an average speed under 6 mph, the route ranks as the third-slowest bus in New York City.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt always comes late or early. Never on time,\u201d Washington said.<\/p>\n
Other riders share the frustration. Abdul, who takes the Bx32 regularly, says it often crawls along the route.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems like it\u2019s hardly moving,\u201d he said. \u201cIt might take you an hour to get from Kingsbridge to here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many riders say the MTA\u2019s transit app makes things worse. They rely on arrival times that often change without warning.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ll see the bus says two minutes away, and then suddenly it\u2019s nowhere to be found,\u201d said one rider who\u2019s been left waiting more than once.<\/p>\n
A student who takes the route home says cars parked in bus lanes make delays even longer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s supposed to be a 20-minute ride, but sometimes it\u2019s 30 or 40 because the lanes aren\u2019t big enough for the cars and the buses,\u201d the student said.<\/p>\n
The MTA has been expanding its Automated Camera Enforcement (ACE) program, which tickets drivers blocking bus lanes. The agency says 51 routes now use bus-mounted cameras \u2014 speeding up travel times on those lines by an average of 5% and serving more than 800,000 riders a week.<\/p>\n
But the Bx32 isn\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n
Riders say that means the delays \u2014 and the consequences \u2014 keep piling up.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating when you gotta go to work and your boss gets mad at you for being late every other day,\u201d Abdul said.<\/p>\n
The MTA says it will work with the city Department of Transportation to evaluate all routes, including in the Bronx, for future ACE expansion. But that process would not begin until at least next year.<\/p>\n
For Bx32 riders, that means more waiting \u2014 on the sidewalk and for a faster ride that still hasn\u2019t come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millions of New Yorkers ride MTA buses every day, but many Bronx riders say the system is anything…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,20950,5459,141,1604,9,24,1310,63,129,131,130,23290],"class_list":["post-40019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-bus-lane-camera-enforcement","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-mta","tag-mta-bus","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-department-of-transportation","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-the-new-york-state-comptroller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40019","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=40019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}