{"id":59051,"date":"2025-12-02T23:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/59051\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:22:06","slug":"mta-boss-lieber-expects-mayor-elect-mamdani-to-move-quickly-on-building-out-bus-lane-network-to-full-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/59051\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA boss Lieber expects Mayor-elect Mamdani to move quickly on building out bus lane network to full potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mta.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MTA<\/a> Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said Tuesday that he expects Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s incoming administration to \u201cmove quickly\u201d on building the number of bus lanes and busways required by city law \u2014 something the Adams administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/nyc-buses-slow-city-falls-short-bus-lane-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">missed benchmarks on for several years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lieber, during an annual CityLaw breakfast event at New York Law School on Dec. 2, contended the MTA has been \u201chamstrung\u201d in delivering faster bus service due to what he described as the Adams administration\u2019s \u201cinability\u201d to produce the number of new protected bus lane miles required by city law during its tenure. The legal requirement comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/about\/nyc-streets-plan.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2019 NYC Streets Plan<\/a>, which mandates the city construct an average 30 miles of new protected bus lanes per year between 2023 and next year.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/nyc-transit\/lieber-mamdani-bus-lane-network-construction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tMTA boss Lieber expects Mayor-elect Mamdani to move quickly on building out bus lane network to full potential &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said Tuesday that he expects Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s incoming administration to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,21946,31765,31766,6157,19659,141,28897,9,24,63,1210,31767,14328,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-59051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-bus-lanes","10":"tag-busways","11":"tag-danny-pearlstein","12":"tag-dot","13":"tag-mayor-elect-zohran-mamdani","14":"tag-mta","15":"tag-mta-chief-and-ceo-janno-lieber","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-transit","20":"tag-nyc-streets-plan","21":"tag-riders-alliance","22":"tag-the-bronx","23":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","24":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59051","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=59051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}