MTA Causes Gridlock Instead of Reducing It
If you need any more proof that dedicated bus lanes are necessary in this city, here’s a picture that should give you some good reason:
This is an M14 bus blocking two full lanes of traffic on 1st Avenue and the east crosswalk at the intersection. This forced pedestrians to literally walk down the middle of 1st Avenue to cross 14th Street. It also forced two M15 buses heading uptown to sit through an entire cycle of the light while this bus sat in the middle of the intersection.
Why was this bus loading passengers here? Because there were two empty cabs sitting in the bus stop zone, most likely loitering at a bodega on 14th Street.
If there was a lane specifically for the buses - or if the NYPD actually enforced the existing No Standing Zone at the bus stop at the height of rush hour - maybe the M14 wouldn’t rank among the slowest buses in the city.
This entry was posted on Thursday, February 5th, 2009 at 10:30 am and is filed under Subway Stupidity. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
February 7th, 2009 at 10:30 am
magickat says:I was in traffic the other day and the bus driver of the M15 next to me was READING A BOOK while driving. I snapped a photo of it and then laughed because it made me think that it was something I’d see on EVI.