@streetsblognyc: Is New York finally getting its long-sought Bus Mayor? First-year chief executive Zohran Mamdani began the years-long process of answering that question today when he and Gov. Hochul released a joint blueprint to speed up the city’s slowest-in-the-nation buses by creating dozens of bus priority corridors, installing bus rapid transit(ish) treatments along five corridors, adding seating and shelters at hundreds of bus stops, enhancing bus route enforcement via cameras and cops, buying thousands of new buses and improving management of bus maintenance and operations. Inspired by then-candidate Mamdani’s campaign pledge to make city buses fast (let’s forget the “free” part for now), the “Next Stop: Better Buses, Faster Service” plan released this morning also includes a crucial commitment from the state-run MTA to finally allow riders to board buses through the back door — one example of what could be an unprecedented level of city-state coordination for transit riders. Read more from Dave Colon at nyc.streetsblog.org Video by Henry Beebe-Center

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