MEASURE / NYC An ever-changing New York, in its own data.

New York promised bus riders up to six minutes.

On July 8, 2026, the city and state committed to making buses 20% faster on 50 priority corridors. This measure follows that commitment in the MTA's published data, every month. Latest: August 2026, compared with August 2025; 2 post-plan months so far.

7.01mph
how fast the average rider's bus moved on priority corridors, weekdays 7am–7pm, in the year before the plan
572,960 weekday riders on 111 tracked routes
+0.3% August 2026 vs August 2025 (7.23 to 7.25 mph), the latest post-plan month. Pre-plan months swung −5.6% to +1.0% year over year, and most of the plan's street work was not yet built. Too soon to call.
3,437,760 rider-minutes/day if every rider saved the full six minutes. The plan promises that ceiling only for the longest commutes.

The plan attaches no single deadline to the 20% goal; DOT and MTA evaluate each corridor 6–12 months after its improvements are built. This measure reports monthly and imposes no deadline of its own.

Data through August 2026; the MTA publishes on a ~6-week lag. Page updated October 2026. Download the corridor table (CSV).

The busiest corridors are in Queens

The two most-used corridors in the plan, Kissena Blvd/Union St/Parsons Blvd (46,769 riders a day) and Main St/Linden Pl (40,907), both run through Queens - ahead of anything in Manhattan. The slowest is Midtown Crosstown at 4.54 mph, about walking pace with a headwind.

Kissena Blvd46,769 riders/dayMain St40,907 riders/day

corridor (thicker = more riders) | rapid bus corridor (dashed) | hover a corridor for its numbers, click to open it | tap a corridor for its numbers, tap again to open it

Boroughs: MN Manhattan, BX the Bronx, BK Brooklyn, QN Queens, SI Staten Island. The 2026 status column repeats the plan's own label for each corridor: bus lanes and busways are street redesigns (a busway limits the street to buses), capital means a construction project, bus priority covers signal and curb changes, study and engagement are planning stages, future project means work starts after 2026, and rapid corridor visioning is early planning for a new limited-stop route.

Sorted by riders. Corridors share routes, so the citywide figure counts each route once. The change column compares August 2026 with August 2025 on each corridor's routes, rider-weighted. Most corridors had no plan treatment yet, so read it next to the pre-plan swing (−5.6% to +1.0% citywide), not as the plan's effect.

Plan no.CorridorRoutesBoro Riders/dayBaseline mph Aug vs 2025Trend since Jan 20252026 status
28 Kissena Blvd/Union St/Parsons Blvd QN Q25 Q44+ Q16 Q17 Q61 QN 46,769 7.89 +1.8% future project
27 Main St/Linden Pl QN Q44+ Q20 Q25 QN 40,907 7.46 +0.5% future project
21 Madison Ave MN M1 M2 M3 M4 Q32 MN 39,481 5.33 0.0% ✓ bus lanes · in place
3 E Fordham Rd BX BX12 BX12+ BX9 BX17 BX22 BX 33,065 7.34 −1.9% bus lanes
46 Bay Parkway BK B82+ B82 B6 BK 31,129 7.07 −0.9% study
23 Northern Blvd RAPID QN Q12 Q66 Q63 Q13 Q32 QN 28,961 7.47 +3.9% future project
13 Lexington Ave (95th–125th St) MN M103 M101 M102 MN 26,689 5.21 −0.3% future project
19 Lexington Ave (52nd–60th St) MN M103 M101 M102 MN 26,689 5.21 −0.3% ✓ bus lanes · in place
29 Ridgewood Busway QN Q58 B13 B20 Q98 QN 24,685 6.97 +2.1% busway
12 125th St MN M125 M60+ M101 MN 24,011 6.69 +0.3% future project
25 Grand Ave/Grand St (BK–QN) BK-QN Q59 Q58 Q98 BK-QN 23,649 6.93 +2.1% study
37 Livingston St BK B41 B45 B67 B103 BK 22,306 6.5 −1.0% study
30 Woodhaven/Metropolitan QN Q52+ Q53+ Q54 Q38 QN 21,211 9.54 −0.6% capital
11 Upper Manhattan North–South MN M100 M101 MN 17,414 5.6 +0.2% future project
34 Sutphin/Guy R Brewer Blvd QN Q111 Q112 Q113 Q114 Q115 Q40 QN 16,352 7.91 −0.2% bus priority
42 Kensington–JFK (BK–QN) RAPID BK-QN B35 B15 BK-QN 16,078 5.69 +1.7% rapid corridor visioning
44 South Brooklyn Crosstown BK B82+ B82 BK 15,684 7.22 −0.6% capital
40 Utica Ave RAPID BK B46 B46+ BK 15,258 7.13 +0.8% engagement
32 Jamaica Ave QN Q56 Q110 Q54 QN 14,396 7.12 +1.2% busway
16 Midtown Crosstown MN M42 M50 M57 MN 14,393 4.54 −2.3% future project
5 E Tremont Ave BX BX36 BX40 BX42 BX 14,249 5.97 +1.0% ✓ busway · in place
9 Tremont/Cross Bronx RAPID BX BX36 BX40 BX42 BX 14,249 5.97 +1.0% rapid corridor visioning
33 Merrick Blvd QN Q5 Q87 Q84 Q86 Q85 Q89 QN 13,841 8.81 +2.0% capital
47 86th St (BK) BK B1 B16 BK 13,746 6.27 −1.7% future project
20 6th Ave MN M55 M5 M7 MN 13,115 5.5 −0.2% study
2 E Kingsbridge Rd BX BX9 BX22 BX 12,891 5.85 −1.5% future project
36 Marcy Ave BK B24 B60 Q54 BK 12,755 6.73 −1.3% bus lanes
31 Woodhaven (Union Tpke/107 Ave) QN Q52+ Q53+ QN 11,582 11.49 −1.2% capital
50 Richmond Ave SI S59 S79+ S89 S94 S44 SI 11,252 13.14 −0.1% future project
8 Southern Blvd BX BX19 BX5 BX 10,985 5.88 +0.2% future project
6 Grand Concourse BX BX1 BX2 BX 10,918 5.88 −1.9% future project
39 Flatbush Ave RAPID BK B41 BK 10,706 6.21 −0.9% bus lanes
41 Church Ave BK B35 BK 10,329 5.16 +2.7% engagement
38 DeKalb/Lafayette Ave BK B38 BK 9,696 5.96 +1.1% study
10 South Bronx Crosstown BX BX6+ BX6 BX 9,453 6.55 −3.3% capital
17 34th St Busway MN M34+ M34A+ MN 9,363 4.95 −1.9% busway
24 Jackson Heights Hub QN Q70+ QN 9,000 11.29 +6.8% bus lanes
43 Linden Blvd (BK–QN) BK-QN B15 B20 BK-QN 8,421 6.59 −0.3% bus lanes
26 108th St QN Q23 QN 8,397 6.67 −2.2% study
18 9th Avenue MN M11 MN 8,221 5.19 −1.4% bus priority
7 3rd Ave (BX) BX BX15 BX21 BX 7,977 6.01 −0.3% future project
1 E Gun Hill Rd BX BX28 BX38 BX30 BX 7,858 6.79 −0.5% future project
15 79th St MN M79+ MN 7,745 6.19 +0.1% capital
48 Bay St SI S81 S51 S74 S76 S78 SI 7,573 11.5 +0.5% future project
49 Victory Blvd SI S62 S92 S61 S66 S91 S93 SI 7,034 11.36 −2.0% bus lanes
45 Avenue J BK B11 BK 5,960 5.19 +0.3% future project
35 Bedford Ave BK B49 BK 5,646 6.71 −0.4% future project
14 116th St MN M116 MN 4,477 5.26 +0.9% bus priority
4 White Plains Rd BX BX39 BX 4,038 6.26 +0.3% future project
22 Broadway (MN) MN M55 MN 1,395 5.35 +1.6% bus priority