Every weekday, the MTA runs over 4,900 buses atraverse 327 routes, with around 1.3 million folks swiping or tapping to get a bus atraverse the city. It is a remarkworthy feat, but even with that many passengers using our bus system, less is frequently written about our bus netlabor than the subway. Given how vital our bus netlabor is in providing travel to New Yorkers atraverse the city, serving millions of dwellnts, we at the MTA are always paying one-of-a-kind attention to how this interjoined netlabor can better serve riders.
Our buses, though, have to steer a more complicated landscape than our trains, facing double-parked cars, road clostateives, deinhabitry vehicles, traffic, and wantipathyver else they might discover on NYC’s frenetic roadways. Amidst this obstacle-laden environment, how speedy are our buses actupartner going? Today, we are making it easier for the unveil to better comprehend this inquire with the new MTA Bus Route Segment Speeds Dataset on Open Data, which provides granular and in-depth bus speeds atraverse our entire netlabor.
