Even after feedback from elected officials and community members got 25 stops put back, some riders still cried foul at having to walk further to their nearest bus stop. One planner’s “balancing” is another person’s “bus stop cut,” however, so while the original plan proposed cutting 400 bus stops in order to keep buses from having to stop every block, the final plan eliminated just 250. In the Boogie Down, the MTA made major changes to 13 of 46 routes, while also tweaking almost every line in the borough by streamlining routes and adding more space between stops, a process known as bus stop balancing. Queens’s network redesign is currently in the finishing touches, while public outreach for Brooklyn’s has only just got underway. The redesign, which was implemented at the end of last June, is the first local bus network overall the MTA has finished since it began the work of tweaking local and limited routes in the boroughs in 2019. On the BX40 on East Tremont Avenue and East 180th Street, highlighted in Thompson’s presentation, riders saved three minutes of travel time going in either direction as a result of the new maps. Graphic: MTAĬrucially in a borough that doesn’t have crosstown subway service, crosstown bus routes saw better speeds and an 8-percent ridership boom after the redesign, the MTA said. Bronx buses moved faster after the MTA’s route redesign, even as average bus speeds remained flat citywide. The routes that received the most changes saw the biggest increases. Ridership, meanwhile, increased 6 percent after the redesign went into effect, Thompson said. Local buses ran 4 percent faster in the months after the redesign went into effect on the 13 routes the agency re-mapped, while overall speeds also increased borough-wide - by 2 percent on weekdays and 3 percent on weekends, according to the presentation. “ has delivered on providing faster, more reliable service and our customers have noticed the improvements,” Thompson said. The jumps in speed and ridership in El Bronx were measured after transit leaders altered the borough’s bus map and removed dozens of bus stops in June 2022, MTA Manager of Bus Service Planning Robert Thompson said during a presentation to authority board members. Buses in the Bronx are moving faster and carrying more riders after the borough’s bus routes were revamped and rejiggered last summer, MTA officials said on Tuesday.
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