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Most X routes were discontinued between 2010 and 2018 due to budget cuts and a reimagining of the bus network. In 2015, the MTA began a comprehensive study of express bus lines on Staten Island. These lines had not been drastically changed since the 1980s, and as a result, they had been updated piece-by-piece.
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.
168 UIC/Pilsen Express: UIC–Halsted (Blue) UPS Hodgkins: Weekday rush Kedzie Discontinued May 14, 2010. 170 U of Chicago/Midway: 57th/Stony Island 59th/Ellis Weekdays 103rd Discontinued August 2016 due to low ridership. 173 U of Chicago/Lakeview Express: 59th/Kimbark Belmont/Halsted Evening rush 103rd Discontinued September 6, 2009.
The large "M" logos on trains and buses were replaced with decals that state MTA New York City Bus, MTA New York City Subway or MTA Staten Island Railway, eliminating inconsistencies in signage. [56] Today, the older "M" logos survive on existing cube-shaped lamps on station lampposts dating to the 1980s, though such lamps have been updated ...
Starting in 2015, the MTA investigated express bus routes on Staten Island, which were circuitous, duplicative, and infrequent. [187]: 14–16 The MTA proposed replacing all of the existing express bus routes with simpler and shorter variants, a proposal supported by 76% of Staten Island residents who had learned about the study.
Express bus service began along the corridor on August 2, 1971, as the Q18X, as the first New York City Transit express service between Queens and Manhattan. [38] The route was renumbered the X18 in 1976, before being renumbered to its current designation, the X68, on April 15, 1990.
An X1 Eltingville bus stop with countdown clocks at Broadway/Barclay Street, among other routes, before SIM conversion A 2002 Motor Coach D4500CL (2882) on the Eltingville-bound SIM1 on Broadway in Lower Manhattan, after SIM conversion. These routes replaced the X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X7, X8, and X9 routes in the Staten Island Bus Redesign.
Pulse is an express bus service and a purported bus rapid transit [a] system operated by Pace, a bus and paratransit agency in the Chicago metropolitan area.Pulse lines incorporate some aspects of a bus rapid transit line like transit signal priority, but not others, including no bus lanes.