lol there's a commenter called Brian p that is dominating the comment section

For all those people with high expectations, heads up: those SI (?)M routes coming via New Jersey Turnpike are gonna be in for a rather unpleasant surprise what with the impending “Summer of Hell” changes dropping one lane of 495 in each direction to/from the Lincoln Tunnel

"Imagine giving 4 hours of your life to someone else..." If you're commuting for work then you're going to give a lot more than 4 hours to someone else.

Darryl Irick: "as much as we can stream line and get them off of staten island in manhattan as quick as possiblwe." me: "getting me into manhattan faster isnt getting me to where i need to go to if i have to transfer to two local buses in manhattan"

What they need to do next is utilize Off Board payments for Express Buses just like they do on Select Bus Service.

Andy Byford is using key methods from the TTC in Toronto. .....WHY DONT NYC BUILD A NEW SUBWAY LINE CONNECTING STATEN IS-BROOKLYN-LOWER MANHATTAN

I am a MTA Bus Fan and MTA Rail Fan here :D

Hard to imagine that this has been 2 years since uploaded

This helps about 17% of the people on Staten Island and hurts everyone else who goes into Manhattan 🙄

Hopefully Queens is next, you have express buses that go thru all of queens QM5, QM8, QM35 start at Union turnpike then make their way down to L.I.E making 20 stops getting packed to stand capacity then make its way back up to Union Turnpike for another 20 stops where nobody can fit anymore then go down queens Blvd to get back to the L.I.E it’s insane. Maybe they can also address the dollar vans that park in bus lanes and bus stops along Archer Ave and Stuphin Blvd. Maybe even turning some Q12 buses into a limited so it doesn’t make every stop to the subway durning rush hour.

Can you use your metrocard for the express bus?

Why not build them another railway or subway that goes to Manhattan or Brooklyn?

new Yorkers are lucky to have so many express bus routes since here in London we only have 3 (607,X26,X68)

Now all we need is more cameras to give people tickets every time somebody for the millionth time parks in the damn bus lane

Vincent Innocente: “this is a win win” Me: “I went from taking one express bus to now having to take one express bus and two local buses. How is that a win win?” I can’t wait for this to fail epically

Cool, now add more Metrocard machines to the island.....and maybe make the S89 a full service

SIM routes are NYCT routes but sounded like MTA Bus routes. Weird but it would be super effective

What going over the Varrizana Narrows Bridge to Phit

This is awesome. Keep making videos. I’m not from SI.

It's about damn time! The Department of Buses in the city of New York is so ass backwards it's ridiculous. Hopefully THEY can (1) set the internal political posturing aside (management check your egos at the door, with the purpose of getting something accomplished) (2) LISTEN to the Bus Operators when it comes to aperating equipment and route changes, (3) Listen to the MEANINGFUL suggestions of its riding public, and finally (4) Carefully analyze all information and implement positive and effective changes to the routes in the city of New York to the benefit of all its riding customers. NOW, LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS!!!

A few weeks into this change and I haven’t taken the same route twice, I’m trying to find a decent route and it doesn’t exist. My commute has increased by 30 min at least... who’s commute has improved since this change? Everyone I know is upset

Great!!!

I was surprised that the MTA buses were completely new when riding them to every stopping destinations in Staten Island. I wonder what happened if the new MTA buses will come to Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn?

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well how about making only one stop from transit center to manhattan

so here we are 6 months later. 6 monthsa after the SIM buses were forced upon us. and about 90% of everything thtas been changed has been added back. old 1x had 27 stops. - new SIM1/SIM1c had 25 stops, customer complaints added them back, we are now back to 27 stops. old 3rd ave bus stop has been eliminated. - New SIM buses added 2nd ave in place of 3rd ave - New, after complaints 3rd ave is back & 2nd ave remains. old Richmond ave had bus stops that were eliminated in the New network. - NEW network has less stops - after complain ts all bus stops on Richmond ave have been added back. I can keep going. like the x2 - eliminated - now its being added back. This was all bull, it was a waste of money

Sarah, Wyss; "we'll be able to offer more frequent service" Buses are now set to come ever 9 mins, the MTA proposed to come every 4 mins. Where the problem lies is the buses come back to back and the dispatchers arent spacing them evenly. So if the MTA cant get it together now at 9 mins, do I believe you when you say every 4 mins? NO!

Awesome

In the long-run, NYDOT gonna have consider a transbay subway tunnel between Manhattan or Brooklyn and S.I. or a commuter train that goes from Midtown through New Jersey into Staten Island. Is it costly?... HELL YES! But how much spending in resources have partake in the past century?... Population will continue to rise; no express buses nor ferries is gonna be able to keep up with the density. Invest for the next 10-15 years New York.

What about the local buses in Staten Island.

Still no train in staten island

27stops for express oh hell no

They finally mention a change for Staten Island.

Jessica Cignarella : "implementing double bus lanes on 5th ave" Me;" theres a bus lane on 5th ave now, its not enforced, plus there are so many cabs trying to make right turns that they will be either in the bus lane trying to turn or jump over from the 3rd lane into both bus lanes to make a right turn. without no right turns from 57th st to 23rd st between rush hours this will not work" Plus are you guys seriously trying to get every staten islander to wait on the most tourist and crowded ave in new york city, you guys really trying to get them all 42nd and 5th. every bus is going to fit at the same stops, LMFAO" I think im going to skip this mickey mouse project and go back to the Ferry

These videos always look like they're trying to sell me something

this part of new york city?

MTA = Vince McMahon

Tabatha Decker: “Staten Island has some of the longest commute time in the country” Me: “ so your suggestion is to cut my bus line and make me have to transfer twice, taking 3 buses in whole to get to work?! Tell me again how this is going to shorten my commute time if I have to now take 2 local buses in Manhattan on top of an express bus” Lies lies lies, I can’t wait for this to fail on an epic level.

Jonathan" the new net work stops an average of 15 stops" me:" so you stop the x10 and x14, that each have 20 stops, from getttng off the highway and going "targee/hylan/fingerboard. cutting them down to 11, but you extend the x2 from 4.7 miles long to 9.2 mile and having 21 stops to 24... How dare you show the x1 bus route has 27 stops, followed by a graph that shows the new network to have 15. you are going from 27 stops to 25 stops, oh wow big whoops

glad i left that shit island and moved to williamsburg but its sad express bus on staten island isnt worth it , it would take well over an hour to lower manhattan from the transit center

I wish miami had the public transportation that ny has

they need to shorten the S79 bus to Brooklyn from Staten Island Mall. Now taking 1.5 hrs just to travel to Brooklyn every day.

I give it one week to see the true results of these express routes 😒

I see people keep saying they have to take two local buses in Manhattan to get to work. But my question is, why are you taking buses in the city to begin with? Trains are faster, just transfer to one that gets closest to your job and walk.

At this point, Staten Island should just leave New York state and join Alabama

I want the SIM routes and the manhattan-staten island X routes to co-exist

Why "SIM"? Doesn't "SM" work?

Is that that hard to extend the SIR to manhattan? Come on. It has been delayed for a century don't know the reason they refuse to do that.

Problem is the UBER drivers dubble parking in the bus lane every fucking block .

Andy Byford: “we listen to commuters” Me: “ uh no you didn’t, I personal told you back in February that after midland and hylan there is no Madison Ave bus and no west side bus. You told me you would look into it. Nothing has been changed. But do I expect Andy not to lie when he got caught back in March lying about train lateness”

Nothing they do will change the bottleneck coming home entering the battery tunnel the FDR gets jammed from bk bridge all the way thru the underpass sometimes 40 minutes plus crawl and the same happens on the turn from Broadway it's a joke that has to be addressed

$238 bucks a month for express bus with an average time from door to door being 50mins to 1hour and 15 mins $121 bucks a month for local bus and train service with an average time from door to door 1 hr & 25-35 mins. Is saving 20-40 mins of time worth paying $117 more a month. - YES!!!! BUT NOW KNOWING THAT I WILL HAVE TO TAKE ONE EXPRESS BUS AND 2 LOCAL BUSES GOING TO BE WORTH IT? NOPE! Before its the MTA's money its my money and I spend my money how I best see fits. This is not going to fit for me. BYE i'll be saving my money and take the local way now, THANKS MTA

Jonathan Hawkins is the biggest liar out of all of them. I personally confronted him with how this isnt going to work n& what could possibly work. He purposely didnt listen to me and told James Oddo to ignore me back in Febuarys meeting at seaview hospital. why would he do this you may be wondering, all because i told him that whoever made this map doesnt know staten islanders and what they're needs are. he then admitted to me he doesnt live on the island and shrugged his shoulders. He took what i said personally because hes the one who did most of the work on the bus routes. Johnathan, please go back home to long island. Stop telling my community what they should do. and no Jonathan, i still didnt drive so stop telling em to drive to the park n ride on father cap

Before I took an express bus and then walk a few blocks to work. Now I get to take an express bus, a train and then walk a few blocks to work. How is this supposed to help make my travel easier when the train aren't reliable?!

Can u add a V train back pleaseeee

I really don't know who is benefiting from this change...I would be taking the SIM 2...they got rid of so many bus stops. Now the bus starts on HYLAN and CRAIG...Seriously..by the time it get to Rossville there would be no seats. My bus stop was eliminated..I would have to WALK to another bus stop...after I would be lucky enough to find a parking spot on Arthur Kill Road. Then they took the Park Place stop away also..now I would have to WALK 1 Avenue and 2 blocks to get to my office. I guess I wouldn't mind so much if I were younger and not walking with a cane. So if I have to do all this walking anyway..I might as well drive to the SIR..FERRY and then 3 stops on the train...at least it will leave me off right across the street from my office. and I won't feel like I been ripped off..paying them $6.50 for an inconvenience they have now cost me and a lot of people. I read somewhere where they are making it harder for people..because they want everyone to take train and ferry...well they convinced me.

Why is there no direct subway line from Manhattan to Staten Island or a direct subway line from the Bronx to Queens? What kind of "win-win" is this? And not even a direct subway line to Staten Island to Brooklyn? Ok, Mta.

I bet none of these effers have ever had to commute by bus.

And that is how the bus redesign network has begun.

MTA's poor management won't extend SIR to manhattan or Brooklyn in 100 years.So sorry that Staten Islanders will continue to suffer.

James Oddo: “it’s hard to call it an express bus when it has 27 stops” X2 has 21 stops - SIM10 has 24 Lies lies lies! Can’t wait for this to fail epically.

This is sickening.

JUST MAKE TUNNELS THAT RUN THROUGH STATEN ISLAND. SMFH HATE MTA.

I'll say this much, at least the people in NYC 🗽 have some got damn sense, the bus system here in west palm beach, FL is a big ass joke, no transfers, or express bus service only good thing they have is tri rail