MTA Bus Time is spreading to Queens

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The NY Observer reports that MTA Bus Time – the MTA’s trademarked real-time bus tracking tool – is going to be “aggressively” spread throughout Queens. Right now the Bronx and Staten Island have it on an extensive number of routes. Queens only has one route hooked into Bus Time, the Q50 (which goes between the Bronx and Queens). But the system has proved to be so helpful, the MTA wants it implemented throughout the other three boroughs – Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. Fernando Ferrer, the MTA’s acting chairman says, “Bus Time is so helpful to our customers that we have scheduled an extremely aggressive timetable to introduce it to three other boroughs.”

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The MTA will be rolling it out further into those three boroughs between this year and 2014 – Manhattan buses will get it by the end of the year, then Brooklyn, and finally Queens – they expect  it will be completed by April 2014. Better late than never.

Of course, Bus Time implementation doesn’t mean buses will arrive magically on schedule, or force traffic to behave, but it will give riders a better idea as to when a bus will actually arrive at a given bus stop, and that truly is a helpful thing.

Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens Will Soon Know How Late Their Buses Are [NY Observer]
Bus Time [MTA]