ICYMI: SIM bus stops in Manhattan released

[Deucey 1,490]

https://www.silive.com/news/2018/06/mta_announces_manhattan_stops.html

 

Feel free to merge into the SI Express bus thread if/when appropriate 

[Via Garibaldi 8 7,576]

I have to agree with a lot of posters on SiLive. Moving ALL of the express buses to 5th Avenue may be a big mistake. Those bus lanes are not enforced and have cars and other things blocking them.

[Deucey 1,490]

4 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

I have to agree with a lot of posters on SiLive. Moving ALL of the express buses to 5th Avenue may be a big mistake. Those bus lanes are not enforced and have cars and other things blocking them.

It’s interesting since I work at 49th/Madison - I never see bus lane obstructions on Madison unless it’s a parked express bus. But since 5th abuts Rockefeller Center, every  taxi and private car gets in those bus lanes and causes every bus to jump to regular traffic lanes.

Maybe they should put up jersey barriers for the bus lanes and signalized right turn lanes to prevent the obstructions?

[Via Garibaldi 8 7,576]

5 minutes ago, Deucey said:

It’s interesting since I work at 49th/Madison - I never see bus lane obstructions on Madison unless it’s a parked express bus. But since 5th abuts Rockefeller Center, every  taxi and private car gets in those bus lanes and causes every bus to jump to regular traffic lanes.

Maybe they should put up jersey barriers for the bus lanes and signalized right turn lanes to prevent the obstructions?

Part of the problem is so many cars have to come into the bus lanes to turn at several blocks and it causes SEVERE back-up. Coming down on the BxM3 this morning 5th was tolerable below 57th Street, but that isn't always the case. I get that they're trying to centralize all express buses on Staten Island and take advantage of those two bus lanes, but with no enforcement it won't matter, and they have no signal priority for them either.

Edited June 7, 2018 by Via Garibaldi 8

[Around the Horn 4,565]

Yeah I can tell from taking the X37 that there needs to be better enforcement and signal priority to keep buses moving... It's extremely annoying when you've just pulled out of a stop and then the next light immediately turns yellow then red.

[Gotham Bus Co. 560]

On 6/6/2018 at 11:40 PM, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

I have to agree with a lot of posters on SiLive. Moving ALL of the express buses to 5th Avenue may be a big mistake. Those bus lanes are not enforced and have cars and other things blocking them.

Maybe someone is hoping that all those additional buses will help the bus lanes become "self-enforcing." We all saw how well that worked on Fulton Street in Brooklyn in the 1990s (the B37 was moved away from the busway so it could go faster).

[Via Garibaldi 8 7,576]

3 hours ago, Gotham Bus Co. said:

Maybe someone is hoping that all those additional buses will help the bus lanes become "self-enforcing." We all saw how well that worked on Fulton Street in Brooklyn in the 1990s (the B37 was moved away from the busway so it could go faster).

Well I happened to be passing along 5th Avenue last night and saw that they're actually painting the bus lanes now, which should've been done ages ago.  I still don't see any enforcement.  The bus lanes are going to be set up just like Madison, but it seems as if Madison Avenue receives more traffic cops getting on drivers to stay in their lanes unless they're turning.

[checkmatechamp13 2,014]

Some newspaper they are. I saw the document posted on their website the weekend before the May 21st public hearing, and the SI Advance is just publishing it lol

I think the Church Street & Park Place stop elimination is stupid. That's the most convenient transfer to the  and  and they want to encourage people to take the subway.

[Deucey 1,490]

3 hours ago, checkmatechamp13 said:

Some newspaper they are. I saw the document posted on their website the weekend before the May 21st public hearing, and the SI Advance is just publishing it lol

Hard to believe it’s the paper that own(ed) Condé Nast, right?