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Serves:
Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island.
Ridership: 2.6 million per average weekday – 789 million annual in 2012.
Number of Buses: 5,602 in 2012
Accessibility:
NYC Transit was the first public agency in the world to have a bus fleet 100 percent accessible to customers who use wheelchairs. 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: About 4,704 in 2012.
Number of routes: 235, local 5 Select Bus Service, and 64 express bus routes in the five boroughs
Number of average weekday trips: 54,000 in 2012.
Number of bus stops:
over 15,000.
Longest rides:The longest local bus route is Staten Island's S78 at 19.7 miles between the St George Ferry Terminal and the Bricktown Mall in Charleston.
Depots:
Buses are housed, washed, and maintained at 28 depots.
The Ten Busiest Local Bus Routes 2012
Number |
Route |
Borough |
Annual Ridership |
| 1 |
M15 Local/SBS |
Manhattan |
17,792,141 |
| 2 |
B46 |
Brooklyn |
15,431,927 |
| 3 |
Bx12 Local/SBS |
Bronx |
14,830,868 |
| 4 |
B6 |
Brooklyn |
13,279,268 |
| 5 |
B44 |
Brooklyn |
12,537,562 |
| 6 |
B35 |
Brooklyn |
11,733,767 |
| 7 |
Bx1/2 |
Bronx |
11,718,634 |
| 8 |
M14 |
Manhattan |
11,513,959 |
| 9 |
B41 |
Brooklyn |
10,948,824 |
| 10 |
Bx19 |
Bronx |
10,029,882 |
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 Grand Avenue and 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
carries
express bus customers in comfort from Staten Island,
Brooklyn, and Queens into Manhattan.
New York City's Rank Among U.S. Bus Systems
Annual Bus Ridership 2012 |
