New York Is Getting Fancy New Buses, Because Millennials

On Tuesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo helped announce the release of the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) new bus re-design. More than 2,000 of these cheery blue-and-yellow vehicles will hit city roads by 2020, outfitted with USB ports and wi-fi.

Thank the kids. “As more and more millennials enter the system and use it daily, [the new technologies] are expectations, not desires, on their part,” said the MTA chairman and CEO Thomas Prendergast during the event. “Many of the young people using our system today grew up with a smartphone in one hand and a tablet in the other. They’re demanding more wi-fi, more real-time information, more charging stations, connectivity, more apps, and more screens. They aren’t luxury items anymore.”