Calling on the MTA to Save the X90 Bus
March 23, 2010
The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has proposed to eliminate the X90 Express Bus Service-a service cut that would create significant hardship for its current riders, as well as strain the already overcrowded M15 bus and Lexington Avenue subway line. On March 4th, I delivered testimony calling on the MTA not to go forward with this cut.
The X90 express bus runs from Yorkville to Lower Manhattan and only operates during peak morning and evening hours. Approximately 620 men and women who rely on this bus to make their daily commute will be forced to instead use alternative transportation.
The MTA has indicated the M15 bus and Lexington Avenue subway as alternatives for riders displaced by the elimination of the X90, even though the MTA acknowledges that both are severely overcrowded. In fact, this is the rationale behind the planned implementation of Select Bus Service on First and Second Avenues and the construction of the Second Avenue Subway line. These alternatives are also quite far from where X90 riders live in Yorkville, and where the X90 bus stops are located.
These are tough times, and I understand that these difficult decisions are being made system-wide. Nevertheless, riders of the X90 express bus have no other reasonable alternative, and I strongly urge the MTA to reconsider its plan to eliminate the X90.
My testimony is below.
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I totally agree with and applaud your testimony. I live on 1st Ave. and work in the World Financial Center. Asking us to use the Lex Ave. line is just going to increase congestion. Plus the x90 is already $5.50. You’d think it was paying for itself.
Please fight for us and keep the x90 service.
Thank you very much.
Ken Godwin
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