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Buses


Serves: Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

Ridership: 2.4 million daily - 741 million annually in 2006.


Number of Buses: 4,518 in 2006

Accessibility: NYC Transit has the largest accessible fleet in the world. Every bus is accessible to people in wheelchairs via front or rear-door lifts; some newer buses have low floors that enable customers to enter via front-door ramps.
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DID YOU KNOW? New York City buses do not accept paper money because NYC Transit uses giant vacuum hoses to empty fareboxes, a process that would shred bills.

Number of miles traveled by an average bus between repairs:
   
March 2005 - February 2006:
3,691   
 
 
February 2006 - January 2007 :
4,111 

 


Number of routes: 207 local and 36 express bus routes in the five boroughs.

Number of trips: 14, 998,384 in 2006.

Number of bus stops: 12,499

Longest rides: The longest local bus routes are Staten Island's S78, which travels 16.5 miles from the St George Ferry Terminal to Main Street in Tottenville and the S74 route, also in Staten Island, which is 17.8 miles long.

Depots: Buses are housed, washed, and maintained at 18 depots.


DID YOU KNOW? Jackie Gleason played a Brooklyn bus operator on
"The Honeymooners" TV series. In real life, his mother worked as a railroad clerk for 15 years. The Jackie Gleason Depot in Brooklyn was once the site of an elevated railcar inspection shop.


Maintenance: General overhauls and heavy maintenance take place at the Bronx's Zerega Avenue and Brooklyn's East New York Central Maintenance Facilities.

The Ninth Avenue shop in Manhattan and the East New York shop in Brooklyn rebuild individual bus components. The Crosstown and Zerega shops paint buses.

DID YOU KNOW? Bus maintenance involves more than 7,000 separate parts.


This 45-foot long over-the-road coach, a newer bus model,
carries express bus customers in comfort from Staten Island,
Brooklyn, and Queens into Manhattan.


New York City Transit's Rank Among North American Bus Systems

Annual Bus Ridership 2004
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10. 		New York City Transit
Los Angeles MTA
Chicago - CTA
Philadelphia - SEPTA
New Jersey Transit Corp.
Washington - Metro
NYC Dept. of Transportation
Boston - MBTA
San Francisco
Miami 		740 million
367 million
294 million
163 million
150 million
146 million
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105 million
98 million
77 million 		 

NYC Transit's buses cover a lot of ground as this Manhattan bus stop sign shows.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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