Hudson River Crossings: Improving Bus Capacity
Over 315,000 bus riders cross the Hudson River each weekday. More than half of these bus riders travel through the Lincoln Tunnel but the exclusive bus lane that only operates during the morning rush hour is at capacity.
Check out our latest production to find out more information about these crossings and what the Tri-state Transportation Campaign recommends for improving these bus crossings. You can download their full report here (pdf). Animation by Hugh Gran and design by Carly Clark.
Congratulations. Great graphics, statistics, text, music, etc. Go Streetsfilms.
This is an amazing video. As advocates, we are always looking for ways to engage the public in transportation issues and make them palatable to an audience that does not instinctively get why buses, street design, bikes, tunnels and bridges matter.
Thanks for doing just that.
What livable streets advocates need more than ever is videos like this, covering all transportation topics, so that pressing policy crises can be digested in bright colors and welcoming visuals.
Great video - articulates the challenges clearly - love it. Streetfilms rocks.
This is SO much fun to watch. Thanks for making this.
BRAVO! This is outstanding.
the animation , the text, the numbers, the ideas
my vote goes for two bus lanes each way. The full center tube.. or convert it to a subway going to the meadowlands..
I really truly loved the animation in this. So visually interesting to watch. Congrats on the very cool film!
Great job Streetfilms! LOVE the animation, gets the point across on both simple and complex levels.
Sending now to all my NJ commuter friends!!
Phenomenal graphics, narration, ever so succinct and easy to absorb - boy, does this ever make it clear what we need to be doing - and what the happy effects would be with more capacity for buses instead of cars. I hope it's been viewed by PANYNJ. Should be viewed by everybody.
Put this on youtube!
Put this on youtube! Will link from blog!
terrific. should be shown on those little monitors they have on the bus I sometimes take from the Catskills.
great video! nyc needs more places for those buses to park, too. that is, another bigger port authority bus terminal, or maybe several.
nice work, this makes the issue so clear and compelling!
<3 <3 <3 buses!
LOVE IT - Great idea - Forwarding to all my friends in NYC!
Very nice! Posted about it here:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/nyc-holland-tunnel-needs-more-transit-bus-lanes-video.php
herenthere, I wanted to embed this in my blog too, and it looks like Streetfilms just came out with a YouTube version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me4wt8GsECg
Spectacular! Thanks for all that amazing research. I'm one of those thousands of commuters. I wish, apart from your double lane idea, the City would go back to the post-911 rule that you had to have three passengers in any car going through the tunnels.
kudos - great short!
Careful, it's not that good idea. Here in Southern of Brazil we have these corridors for bus only that are taking the place of the car vias. Not right to force people to use buses by taking away the streets from the cars. If you have heavy traffic and you have to use bus corridors, at least make sure both cars and buses will have the same amount of congestion, do not privilege one or other.
Ao contrario, Roberto, it's a good idea to privilege buses over cars. They use less energy, pollute less, take up less space, and cause less congestion. It's not right to force people to own cars by taking resources away from buses and trains.
BTW, I'm looking forward to the next version, which I hear will have more location shots!
adding another bus lane just means that all the cars that travel will have less access to the tunnel. this might make it easier for the buses to go through the tunnel - but getting there will becoming a nightmare with all the backed up cars. saving 20 min in the tunnel isnt worth 2 hours on the highway
Christine made a good point, a subway would be great long term.
woooot! woooot! This is a great film - visually appealing and so clear, articulate and compelling. Great job.