![]() ![]() Minton promises the MTA will take another look at it for 2021. ![]() He said Diaz was "absolutely right to take some pride in that accomplishment, which he pressed for, and we worked with him on."īut the idea of cutting express bus service is not completely dead. "Nothing is happening imminently, it is postponed." "We have postponed any changes to express bus service," said Tim Minton, communications director for the MTA. Now, according to the MTA, only changes to local bus service will be implemented then, while the MTA continues to work out the express bus plan. ![]() Those changes were slated to go into effect across the board in fall 2020. Because of lower ridership off-peak - and the cost of running the larger coach buses through the city - the MTA had hoped to cut many of those routes midday and evenings, while rerouting two of the buses away from the stops Central Park at Mount Sinai Hospital and Museum Mile, and instead taking the Henry Hudson Parkway. The changes to routes like the BxM1, BxM2 and BxM18 were part of the MTA's overall bus redesign plan for the Bronx. It seems the fight by express bus riders to maintain after-hours service connecting the Bronx and Manhattan has ended in victory, at least for a little while.īronx borough president Ruben Diaz Jr., told his Twitter followers he had just finished a phone call with New York City Transit president Andy Byford and was told the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was abandoning plans to curtail express bus service.
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