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NYC FURTHER ROLLS BACK PLANS TO REVAMP FORDHAM ROAD BUS INFRASTRUCTURE



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Published Sep 22, 2023

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The city’s Department of Transportation is backing away from plans to revamp bus
infrastructure on Fordham Road in the Bronx, angering some transit advocates.

The DOT had initially offered a number of options to improve the notoriously
congested Fordham Road, which occupies a stretch on the Bx12 bus route — the
second busiest in the city and the busiest in the Bronx, according to the
agency.

Bus speeds on the route have declined to an average rate of around 7.5 miles per
hour, according to the DOT, and can be as slow as under 4 miles per hour in
other parts – making commuting to Manhattan challenging for people who rely on
public transportation.

Two of the city’s proposed options would have transformed the road into a
busway, similar to the one on 14th Street. A busway would allow only buses,
trucks, emergency vehicles and those accessing residences or businesses on the
road during peak hours. But in May, the DOT opted for the third, less ambitious
plan: creating an offset bus lane, which is a lane dedicated to buses, one lane
away from the curb.

Now, the DOT isn’t even doing that. The city will instead just repaint the
existing curbside bus lane, according to agency spokesperson Mona Bruno.

“After painting is completed, NYPD will conduct heightened bus lane enforcement.
Next summer, we will review the results of these measures and evaluate whether
additional treatments are necessary,” said Bruno.



The earlier proposals had been met with opposition from Bronx business leaders
and local institutions like the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo
among others, Streetsblog reported in May.

Meanwhile, one poll of several hundred local residents found that 89% of
respondents supported improving existing bus lanes, with 70% supporting
transforming the road into a busway.

The city’s own street design manual explains that offset bus lanes work best in
congested streets with heavy demand at the curb because it allows for buses to
avoid other vehicles at the curb.

The executive director of the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, Danny
Harris, slammed Mayor Eric Adams for falling flat on his promise to improve the
city’s infamously slow buses.

“Our city, especially under this mayor, continues to put cars and parking spaces
first, and we're seeing similar pushback — whether it's on Fordham Road or
McGuinness Road — where the mayor is not trusting in the transportation experts
that he's hired to actually do the work, and we're letting politics get
involved,” Harris said. “As a result, people are being left behind, whether
they're waiting for the bus, whether they're on the bus, whether they're riding
a bike, or they want to ride a bike, or whether they're pedestrians.”

He added that the news coming during Climate Week made it an especially
disappointing blow.



“To basically tell the world while they're all in New York that you're going to
make these lofty commitments and at the same time you're going to kill a
project, that's not only good for New Yorkers, but it's good for the earth, it
just completely sends the wrong signal to New Yorkers and to the world about the
commitment of this administration and this city towards sustainable goal,”
Harris said.

The current curbside bus lane will be repainted as soon as the end of the month,
according to the DOT.



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