The project support Mayor Mamdani’s promise of making New York buses ‘fast and free.’
The New York City Department of Transportation announced it will extend a dedicated bus lane on Madison Avenue for an additional 19 blocks, report Sofia Poznansky and Caitlin McCormack in the New York Post.
“Mike Flynn, the DOT veteran who was named to the Mamdani administration on New Year’s Eve, revealed the plan to expand the existing Madison Avenue bus lane from 42nd Street to 23rd Street alongside Deputy Mayor Julia Kerson on Sunday afternoon.” The extension will follow the same configuration — “two bus lanes on the east side of the street plus one general traffic lane and a flexible parking lane” — as the current Madison Avenue bus lane.
According to Kerson, buses on the street currently move at four to five miles per hour. “That’s not just frustrating, it can mean missing a shift at work, arriving late to a doctor’s appointment, or your kid being the last one to get picked up after school,” Kerson added.
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