^ Actually...I didn't think of that. I thought more along the lines of a plain SBS, really.
Okay, since I'm in a bus route-making mood…
1. The M26 LTD: part-time during the weekday rush hours. This route goes from Grand Central to South Ferry via West Street and Battery Park City. Runs both ways from 7 AM to 9:20 AM and 3:30 PM to 6:50 PM with fifteen- to thirty-minute headways in the afternoon and twenty-minute ones in the morning. The route goes like this:
Downtown:
a. Route goes down 42nd Street (stops: Grand Central, 5th Avenue, Times Square)
b. Down Seventh Avenue to 14th Street (stops: Penn Station, 23rd Street, 14th Street)
c. Down 14th Street (stops: 8th Avenue, 9th Avenue, 11th Avenue)
d. Down West St (no stops)
e. Down North End Avenue (stops: Vesey Street)
f. Down West Street, then turning to South End Avenue before returning to West Street (stops: South End Avenue, Battery Place)
g. Concluding at South Ferry.
Uptown:
a. Leaving South Ferry and heading to West Street (stops: S. Ferry, Battery Place, Vesey Street/N. End Avenue.
b. Up West Street before turning on 14th Street (stops: 11th Avenue, 9th Avenue, 8th Avenue; no stops along West Street).
c. Turns up 8th Avenue (stops: 23rd Street, Penn Station, 41st Street)
d. Down 42nd Street (stops: Times Square, Bryant Park, 5th Avenue, Grand Central)