Transportation

How Do We Hate New York City Buses? Let Us Count the Ways

A short film allows riders to vent about—and share their best hopes for—the city’s underperforming transit workhorses.
Flickr/Oran Viriyincy

Buses are the unloved sluggish workhorses of New York City’s transit system. Close to 2.5 million riders rely on them on any given weekday—more than twice the number as in L.A., the second largest system in the country. Still, that’s a big drop from where Big Apple bus ridership was a decade ago, even as population and subway ridership has boomed. Bus passengers are fed up with pokey speeds (7.4 mph on average, compared to L.A.’s 10.7), unreliable schedules, and painful service cuts that leave vehicles ever more crowded.