

brought proprietary technology and countdown clocks to the heavily-trafficked corridor, but when the MTA searched for a system-wide solution, the agency instead went with a distance-based tracking system and no countdown clocks. An expensive pilot program along 34th St. Over the past few years, as bus-tracking technology has swept the globe, New York has slowly embraced it. Few advances in the way we treat buses represent lost opportunities to move New Yorkers quickly and efficiently. Buses are underutilized and often looked down upon by even their own riders. Delayed by the vagaries of surface traffic, the city’s buses rarely stay on schedule and inch along surface streets. As we know, New York City buses are slow and unreliable.
