"The project aims to speed up the sluggish vehicles, which currently travel down the borough's busiest bus corridor at roughly 4 miles per hour during peak times. An average 130,000 riders take the buses on Fordham Road - primarily the Bx12 and Bx12 Select Bus Service (SBS)- each day."
"Lisa Daglian, executive director of the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA (PCAC), said the project is "going to be a golden opportunity for the thousands and thousands of people who ride the Bx12 for work, who take it to the zoo, who go shopping, who just need to get where they're going.""
"Danny Pearlstein, a spokesperson for the group Riders Alliance, said that advocates see the Fordham Road project as a test case that can lead to similar changes on the Bronx's other east-west corridors. "Our hope is if we really prove a very robust concept on Fordham that leads to much faster buses and saves people a lot of time, that that's something that other communities will want to see replicated to the north and south.""
Transit advocates and local officials celebrated the revival of the Fordham Road bus lane project in the Bronx under new Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who campaigned on making city buses faster and free. The project targets the borough's busiest east-west corridor, where buses currently travel at approximately 4 miles per hour during peak times despite serving roughly 130,000 daily riders on the Bx12 and Bx12 Select Bus Service. Transit advocates view this initiative as a critical step forward for the Bronx's cross-town connectivity. The project is positioned as a test case that could lead to similar improvements on other east-west corridors throughout the borough, potentially transforming transit accessibility across multiple communities.
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