MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

[#bancars]

TransitMatters released their analysis of the slowest and most bunched buses:

TransitMatters Reveals The MBTA's Slowest And Most Bunched Buses — TransitMatters

[The Pokey/Schleppie Awards] identifies the most unreliable routes and suggests bus priority infrastructure implementations, operations modernization, and policy and planning changes to create a better bus network for riders.

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I think it is kinda hilarious that the 1 is #1 on both of these lists.

 

[Teban54]

Since the 66 was cut in two halves today due to the marathon (Harvard to Union Square, and Nubian to Brookline Village), I thought it would have been more reliable and less prone to bunching. Unfortunately, I was wrong:

(For my specific purposes, this played out in my favor: I was trying to photograph the 66 buses there, and three buses bunching means I had three shots to get it right, instead of the more common scenario of waiting up to an hour per single chance. But clearly, that's not good for anybody else.)

 

[as02143]

From the report:

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I think it's hilarious that the outline of the 91 is not the route it has run for at least 4 years now.

I do wonder, if they did this analysis back when the 92 ran to Assembly if it would be even higher on the list.

 

[Longfellow]

Hard to express how gigantic these guys are in real life. Huge improvement