Booming Brooklyn suffers busted bus system, wasting money
‘It’s faster to walk … MTA asleep at the wheel’
Officials and transit advocates on Thursday issued a stinging indictment of the city’s outdated and failing bus service, calling it a system in crisis. And booming Brooklyn has some of the worst bus service in the city, they said, with riders opting out in droves.
Most of New York City’s bus routes were designed when TV shows like “I Love Lucy” were smash hits, city Comptroller Scott Stringer told reporters and transit advocates at a press conference on Court Street near Brooklyn Borough Hall.
“They’re decades old. It’s no wonder we have the slowest bus service nationwide,” he said.