Showing posts with label Comptroller Stringer Releases New. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comptroller Stringer Releases New. Show all posts

Monday, December 25, 2017

Comptroller Stringer Releases New, Data-driven Profiles Of Every Bus Route In The City


  After releasing a comprehensive report on New York City’s bus system last month, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer today released new route-by-route profiles for every bus in the five boroughs. The profiles give New Yorkers route-by-route data and information – including changes in ridership, average speeds, frequency of buses per hour, number of turns along the route, and more – to understand why and how New York City has a bus crisis.

The new profiles build on Comptroller Stringer’s report released in late November – The Other Transit Crisis: How to Improve the NYC Bus System – which revealed that over the last eight years, the MTA bus system lost 100 million passenger trips as buses traveled at the slowest speeds of any large city in the country. The report found New York City’s slow buses are a result of routes that are often long, unreliable, and meandering, and that too often they fail to connect working people to emerging job centers across the city, especially outside of Manhattan.
“It’s an under-the-radar crisis that’s harming New Yorkers on our streets each and every day. It’s our bus system. The slowest bus system isn’t in Los Angeles, or Boston, or Philadelphia. It’s right here at home. If we’re going to be a true five-borough economy, we have to modernize our buses and connect routes to new job centers. It’s time for an overhaul,” said New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer. “We put out this data to keep New Yorkers informed, to give them the tools they need to understand the problem we’re facing. We know that we need to take bold steps today to create a modern, best-in-class, 21st century bus system tomorrow.”
The Comptroller’s bus route profiles provide granular detail on ridership for each route, as well as the length of bus routes, number of stops along them, the average distance between stops, the number of turns along each route, and their proximity to subway stations, which illuminate the challenges that confront certain neighborhoods that are transit desserts. The profiles are also presented on-line in an interactive, user-friendly format.

Top Five Slowest Routes By Speed (MPH)

  • M42 – 3.90
  • M31 – 4.14
  • M57 – 4.17
  • M66 – 4.25
  • M50 – 4.51

Worst On-time Performance (OTP)

  • SBS15 – 33.9%
  • M1 – 36.3%
  • Q113 – 36.6%
  • S86 – 37.8%
  • SBS60 – 38.1%

 Top Five Longest Routes (In Miles)

  • S78 – 20.8 miles
  • S74 – 19.4 miles
  • S59 – 16.0 miles
  • B15 – 13.3 miles
  • B82 – 12.8 miles

 Most Turns Along Route

  • Bx8 – 29
  • S57 – 28
  • Q39 – 27
  • Q102 – 26
  • S52 – 26
Among the findings that are highlighted in Comptroller Stringer’s previous bus analysis include:
  • The MTA bus system lost 100 million riders in the last eight years, falling from 868 million passenger trips in 2008 to 769 million in 2016.
  • While the MTA has found that long and meandering bus routes are inefficient and unreliable, 38 local routes make at least 15 turns.
  • The average New York City Transit bus travels at an average of 7.4 MPH – slowest among the 17 largest bus systems in the nation.
To read today’s release of bus profiles, click here.
To read the Comptroller’s initial bus report, The Other Transit Crisis: How to Improve the NYC Bus System, click here.

Friday, June 23, 2017

Comptroller Stringer Releases New, Interactive LGBTQ Guide in Advance of Pride 2017


  New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer today released a new interactive 2017 LGBTQ Guide, which is the most comprehensive resource across the city of organizations and programs that serve the LGBTQ community. The guide helps New Yorkers find organizations, obtain services, better understand available resources like healthcare and support groups, and more. This year’s LGBTQ Guide launched new online tools – including the ability to map the location of key service providers across the five boroughs – as well as a new section that helps LGBTQ New Yorkers obtain government benefits and public assistance.

“It’s our job to help New Yorkers get the services they need – and this year’s guide is a critical resource. With new online offerings, what was already New York City’s most comprehensive resource is even better,” New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer said. “My entire life I’ve stood up for progress. That’s never going to stop. If we’re going to be the greatest city in the world in this century and the next, then we also must work to be the most inclusive city in the world.”
This builds on Comptroller’s Stringer previous work. Earlier this year, he led a group of investors in speaking out against Texas’s S.B. 6 – also known as a “bathroom bill” – as well as worked with other large pension funds to promote diversity inclusive of the LGBTQ community at companies across the nation. Comptroller Stringer has also been an outspoken advocate on the Gender Non-Discrimination Act at the state level, and has written a report about gender-neutral bathrooms in New York City that was the basis for City Council legislation that ultimately became law.
Earlier this week, the Comptroller released the results of a survey of hundreds of LGBTQ New Yorkers, which was created to pinpoint gaps in how government services are provided and identify ways New York City can improve. Many survey respondents indicated that they experienced discrimination in the workplace, public harassment, and economic and healthcare challenges. The survey results can be found here.
“We are one of the most LGBTQ-friendly places in the world, but there’s always more to do. We have to keep standing up for what’s right – and we have to do it together,” Comptroller Stringer said.
The new 2017 LGBTQ Guide can be found at www.comptroller.nyc.gov/lgbtq.