New York City's Department of Transportation says that it will have five new high speed bus lines up and running by 2008.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg promised to establish an express bus system in Manhattan during his 2001 mayoral campaign. Five years later and after a and after two and a half years of study New York City's DOT says that it has chosen the five bus routes that would be piloted as a part of the city's first Bus Rapid Transit program. One BRT corridor was selected in each borough. DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall told the New York Times that "two of the routes would be in use by next fall, and plans call for the rest to be in use in 2008."
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