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Beyond the route: Introducing granular MTA bus speed data
Introducing granular MTA bus speed data
Our buses, though, have to navigate a more complicated landscape than our trains, facing double-parked cars, road closures, delivery vehicles, traffic, and whatever else they might find on NYC’s frenetic roadways. We can see how the general traffic congestion in Manhattan, Downtown Brooklyn, and the South Bronx leads to significant slowdown of bus speeds during the day—especially during morning and evening commutes. We are excited for Open Data users to dig into this dataset, experiment, and find insights from the “speed sample of NYC’s streets” that the MTA’s 4,900 buses collect each day.
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