Hudson River Crossings: Improving Bus Capacity

Thursday, June 25, 2009

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.

Jonas Hagen

Congratulations. Great graphics, statistics, text, music, etc. Go Streetsfilms.
http://www.livablestreets.com/people/Caroline Caroline Samponaro

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.
http://www.livablestreets.com/people/Jessica Jessica

Great video - articulates the challenges clearly - love it. Streetfilms rocks.
Lars

This is SO much fun to watch. Thanks for making this.
http://www.chekpeds.com Christine Berthet

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..
Kristen Steele

I really truly loved the animation in this. So visually interesting to watch. Congrats on the very cool film!
http://sustainableflatbush.org Anne

Great job Streetfilms! LOVE the animation, gets the point across on both simple and complex levels.

Sending now to all my NJ commuter friends!!
Shirley Secunda

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.
http://ecstatice.blogspot.com/ herenthere

Put this on youtube!
http://ecstatice.blogspot.com/ herenthere

Put this on youtube! Will link from blog!
http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.blogspot.com DeeDee

terrific. should be shown on those little monitors they have on the bus I sometimes take from the Catskills.
jesse

great video! nyc needs more places for those buses to park, too. that is, another bigger port authority bus terminal, or maybe several.
d

nice work, this makes the issue so clear and compelling!
http://northbird.blogspot.com Shin-pei

<3 <3 <3 buses!
Jill Haarlander

LOVE IT - Great idea - Forwarding to all my friends in NYC!
http://www.treehugger.com Michael Graham Richard

Very nice! Posted about it here:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/nyc-holland-tunnel-needs-more-transit-bus-lanes-video.php
Red

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
Christine

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.
beth!

kudos - great short!
Roberto

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.
http://www.livablestreets.com/people/capntransit Cap’n Transit

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.
http://www.livablestreets.com/people/capntransit Cap’n Transit

BTW, I'm looking forward to the next version, which I hear will have more location shots!
avi

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
Andrew

Christine made a good point, a subway would be great long term.
http://www.lacreekfreak.wordpress.com Joe Linton

woooot! woooot! This is a great film - visually appealing and so clear, articulate and compelling. Great job.
Chetan

Great pic. The people who made this should make a video in the same style talking about the personal benefits of riding transit. (Not just the overarching environmental and cost benefits) As almost a "transit promotion video"
http://flickr.com/danielle_scott Danielle

I am a bus commuter who travels outside of Toronto to a city 30 miles away. I'm one of hundreds who rely on the route we take and I can't help but think that maybe we too could benefit from a proper BRT solution.

On a metropolitan scale it makes sense as well; thousands come in to Toronto by train to go to work, as well.
Anonymous

I truly hopeful this lesser, third-World, Subsaaharian Africa-worth frankstein called BRT is extinguished instead of expanded. They should actually impose harsh rules on buses such as mandatory seatbelts, no people standing etc. And then use trains, subway, monorails to provide public transportation.
David

I sincerely hope your view has changed in the last 5 years...what a dismal and ignorant comment.

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