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The Bus Time smartphone interface during its Manhattan launch on October 7, 2013 The Bus Time console installed in a bus behind the driver's seat. MTA Bus Time, stylized as BusTime, is a Service Interface for Real Time Information, automatic vehicle location (AVL), and passenger information system provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York City for customers of its ...
MYmta is intended to combine MTA functionalities that are already available in separate apps such as Subway Time, Bus Time, and the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Metro-North Railroad Train Time applications into one all-encompassing application. [2]
The MTA Regional Bus Operations bus fleet is a fleet of buses in fixed-route service in New York City under the "MTA New York City Bus" (also known as New York City Transit or NYCT) and "MTA Bus" brands, both of which operate local, limited, express and Select Bus Service routes.
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, [2] or simply Transit, [3] and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City.
[100] [101] In October 2010, the developers of the buses' GPS devices implemented the MTA system's first bus-tracking app, which monitored buses along the M16 and M34 routes. [ 102 ] [ 103 ] [ 104 ] This evolved into the current web app, which originally tracked buses along the B63 route in Brooklyn when it started in February 2011.
The division comprises two brands: MTA Bus and MTA New York City Bus. While MTA Bus is an amalgamation of former private companies' routes, MTA New York City Bus is composed of public routes that were taken over by the city before 2005, except the SIM23 and SIM24 which were taken over in 2022.
Select Bus Service on the route began on July 13, 2015. [107] M96: New York City Department of Plant and Structures began operating bus (M6 – soon became NYCO's 19) on July 1, 1921. Operated by Green Bus Lines from 1933 to 1936, then taken over by New York City Omnibus Corporation on June 22, 1936. [105] Route M19 became M96 c. May 1993. M98
X- routes are operated by New York City Transit, while QM- routes are operated by MTA Bus Company. All Midtown routes except for the QM2 , QM5 and QM20 Super Expresses operate nonstop outbound via the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge , while Downtown routes operate via the FDR Drive and the Queens Midtown Tunnel.