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Bus speeds and on-time performance analysis
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Council Member Brooks-Powers discusses the IBO analysis of bus speeds and on-time performance, noting that speeds have not changed substantially since January 2019. MTA officials respond with information on their efforts to improve bus speeds.
- Discussion of the IBO analysis showing average bus speeds of 7.6 miles per hour during peak weekday hours
- MTA's initiatives to improve bus speeds, including bus lanes and the ABLE system for enforcement
- Mention of bus system redesign efforts in various boroughs to enhance efficiency
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
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Bus speeds on time performance.
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IBO conducted an analysis of publicly available bus speed data for the New York State open data and MTA and MTA to better understand the current state of the New York City bus network.
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IBO's analysis compared current bus speeds to pre pre pandemic speeds using January 2019 as a benchmark despite multiple city and MTA plans to improve bus speeds between January 2019 and December 2024, bus speeds did not change substantially for any of the three trip types.
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Average bus speeds across all 316 bus routes during peak weekday hours is 7.6 miles per hour consistent with January 2019 speeds at 7.8 miles per hour.
1:42:04
What is the MTA doing to improve bus speeds throughout the city and is the camera enforcement of traffic violations working?
Demetrius Crichlow
1:42:15
So I mentioned you we mentioned two things that that we're doing our part to be able to reduce to improve upon bus speeds.
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One is making sure we have as many bus lanes as possible.
1:42:27
Having bus lanes is fantastic.
1:42:30
We we've seen increase in the speeds at every instance that we've installed bus bus lanes.
1:42:36
And then the second portion is our a system, has been extremely successful in how we do our work.
1:42:43
Being able to keep people out of the bus lane in addition to keeping them out of bus stops and double parking along the route has been has been huge for us.
1:42:53
So, you know, I could say that we we're now up to 34 bus routes that have the a system and, you know, the buses themselves are increased on average 5%.
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Sometimes some of the individual lines are up to 20%.
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It's safer, less accidents.
1:43:14
So we're very very confident that a continued rollout in ACE over the next several years will have improvement to bus speeds.
Shanifah Rieara
1:43:21
And to add to that, mean something that we are looking at holistically is, again, the redesigning of our looking at our entire bus system.
1:43:29
You know, the The Bronx was completed.
1:43:31
Brooklyn and Queens, as you know, was part of those discussions, was completed with some really cool enhancements with rush routes.
1:43:41
You know, Brooklyn is up next and and the the other boroughs.
1:43:44
So again, large community engagement with lots of our customers and looking how we can move our riders from point a to point b faster and mitigating a lot of those impediments that you know hamper bus operators from navigating the city terrains.
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Thank you.
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What has been the impact of congestion pricing on bus speeds?
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Positive.
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It's it's within the CBD as as president Critchlow has mentioned, buses are getting to they're moving around the bus routes in at a quicker speed to the point where schedules have to be adjusted to, you know, to prevent any lag or waiting at bus stops.