"New York City's slowest-in-the-nation bus system continues to disappoint and fail riders, Comptroller Brad Lander charged on Thursday with the release of his new report card for city buses. A whopping 186 of the 332 bus lines across the five boroughs - 56 percent - received a D or F, per Lander's grading. Manhattan performed the worst, "largely due to heavy traffic," the comptroller's office said."
"None of that is new: We've know for a long, long time that New York City's bus service sucks. And Mayor Adams failed to make much of a dent in that despite lofty campaign promises, but Lander's report highlighted some small bits of improvement. Reliability on bus routes in the congestion relief zone, for example, improved by 9.2 percent after the long of tolls there in January."
"But the real contribution of Lander's report is his proposal for the city and MTA to "set performance-based goals for improving bus" service. That may not sound like much, but it shifts the benchmark at faster buses rather than miles of bus lanes or other interventions that depend on enforcement to work. And that matters because, as bus experts Annie Weinstock and Walter Hook have laid out, years of bus lanes and other upgrades failed to make a dent in citywide average bus speeds."
New York City's buses are the slowest in the nation, with 186 of 332 lines (56%) graded D or F. Manhattan shows the poorest performance, driven largely by heavy traffic, while bus bunching is worst in Brooklyn. Select Bus Service routes perform slightly better due to stop consolidation and all-door boarding. Reliability improved 9.2% on routes inside the congestion relief zone after tolls began in January. Setting performance-based goals is recommended to prioritize higher bus speeds rather than measuring miles of bus lanes, since past lane additions and upgrades did not raise citywide average bus speeds.
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