New York City is set to move forward with a long-delayed busway on 34th Street between Ninth Avenue and Third Avenue in Midtown, Manhattan. The plan is intended to improve travel times for more than 28,000 daily bus riders while enhancing street safety, freight movement, and emergency vehicle access. The initiative builds on the city’s previous bus-priority projects, including the 14th Street busway.
The corridor is designated as a Vision Zero Priority Corridor due to its history of serious traffic crashes. According to NYC DOT, 324 traffic injuries were recorded along 34th Street between 2020 and 2024. The agency said busways elsewhere in the city have increased bus speeds by up to 60 percent and reduced injuries by as much as 45 percent, while injuries along the 14th Street busway declined by nearly 60 percent after implementation.
Rendering of plans for 34th Street and Park Avenue, via NYC.
Under the plan, the busway will operate daily from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Through traffic will be limited to buses, trucks, and emergency vehicles, while local vehicle access will be maintained with drivers required to make the next available turn to exit the corridor. NYC DOT said traffic studies found surrounding streets can absorb rerouted vehicle traffic without significant impacts to travel times.
Public outreach is expected to begin this month, with street furniture installation planned for later this summer and construction scheduled for completion by the end of the fall.
“Too many New Yorkers spend too much time waiting on buses stuck in traffic,” said Mayor Zohran Mamdani. “The 34th Street busway will change that, turning one of our most congested bus corridors into one that actually moves. This is how we build a transit system that meets the scale of our city: fast, reliable and built for the people who depend on it every day.”
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14th street is like a ghost town and 13th and 12th are jammed with cars.
They should allow taxis to use these bus lanes.
No way, taxi’s and other for-hire vehicles are one of the biggest causes of traffic. They can pick up and drop off on 14th St now, they just need to turn off on the first right turn.
This is great news. 14th Street is now a much better experience for so many more people than just the private vehicle driver. I do wish they would rely less on painted pavement, but hopefully this will go away as people become used to the change.
Mandummy
Oh look, another bootlicking MAGAt who’s never set foot in New York City. Stick to your red welfare state and trailer park refuge, incel.
If they don’t agree with me they are automatically Maga Sybau
And another MAGAlomaniac joins the chat.
Tell me you don’t live in NYC without saying you don’t live in NYC…
You conservatives turn a blind eye to anything that will help the public from developing into a better society because of your fragile egos and sycophantic praise for that orange POS
Ditto!
Totally confusing to anyone who doesn’t ordinarily attempt to navigate NYC streets. I was back for the holidays to visit relatives last year and couldn’t begin to figure out what they were doing on 14th street. Next time I’ll fly to Paris before I drive from upstate back to NYC.
Next time I’ll fly to Paris before I drive from upstate back to NYC… But you’ll have to drive to NYC to get to JFK to get to Paris first 😂
Bon voyage!
Those comments from people with TDS are very annoying. Psychiatric. I love buses, but certainly hate Mamdani.
‘TDS’ is a nothing but a feeble, cowardly & pathetic attempt by reich-wing white supremacists to try and insult people they know are smarter than them, and can’t admit it themselves. I’m more than sure you easily relate to those kinds of fascist scumbag cunts running & ruining America.
And I bet you freely throw that term around to anybody that triggers you for pointing out how much the president is a corrupt grifting fuckface who turned the White House into a Waffle House for white trash crackers, proud ‘straight’ men, domestic abusers & pedophilic rapists, inbreds thinking immigrants steal their jobs, and sexist cunthounds.