r/nycbus

I have always wondered should the BxM11 continue traversing straight after White Plains Road making stops into Mount Vernon ending & terminating near the Metro North Mount Vernon East station! I also proposed about 6 extra stops where the BxM11 should make pick up and drop off stops at.

1. White Plains Road & 242nd Street

2. West 1st Street & South 14th Avenue

3. West 1st Street & 11th Avenue

4. West 1st Street & 5th Avenue

5. East Prospect Avenue & Gramatan Avenue

6. Gramatan Avenue & North Street

I have no doubt that some BxM11 bus passengers live at and near these particular stops and probably even has to transfer to the bee line 42 bus route to reach these destination stops. I truly think it's necessary and beneficial for the BxM11 getting a route extension to Mount Vernon making these particular stops.

One of the most aggrevating parts of being totally reliant on buses are the ghost buses that just disappear and reappear whenever. It seems like the MTA can actually track when it left the bus stop, so why not just expose it? Doesn't matter if it disappeared from the route, as long as I know it left, I should have a rough estimate of when it could come and more importantly, that there IS a bus coming.

Theres a bus driver along my route, who tries to deny me a transfer 2 days in a row because i asked before i get off the bus. I take the bus all the time in the morning while taking my son to school and no other bus driver has ever given me an issue when asking for a transfer. Literally, and i have lived here all my life. The first day i let it go, but the second day i got into an argument that held up the bus because im rightfully entitled to a transfer, im getting on the bus with a child while people are behind me, im not going to remember to ask for a transfer at the moment. He ended up giving me the transfer after about 3 minutes of us arguing back and forth, both shouting at eachother. Seriously it was ridiculous.

Before escalating the situation and reporting, i want to know if it is a new standard procedure or something that you can’t receive a transfer while exiting the bus?

I really dgaf if you pay your fare or not but my god the MTA guys have to check every single person on the bus and a lot of people will play stupid and hold it up. Again I don’t care if you didn’t pay the fare but the setup is so stupid that the bus remains stopped with the doors open the entire time. If you didn’t pay the fare they’ll kick you out anyways so just walk off instead of holding everyone up. My daily commute used to be just 20 minutes via bus and now it’s been well past 30 minutes because every day these dudes are waiting at the bus stops all mighty and proud. Why can’t they just hop on the bus and check everyone on the way to the next stop?? All this time wasted on the MTA employees going back and fourth with the riders does not solve anything lol

Couldn’t get a cdl permit in time.Does anyone know how to get your list number and how long does it take to get an email back for rescheduling?

I have a question. Are you allowed to talk on the Express buses? I traveled on the QM6 Express Bus with several middle aged/senior ladies going to Manhattan. After riding for about 15 minutes, the overly assertive bus driver on the QM6 Express Bus Route stopped the bus, approached our group of ladies and said we were talking too loud. There were several ladies that were aged 75+ as part of the group. He then mentioned some kind of senior rate OMNY card, I guess to lighten his message. He also had an argument with a driver of a vehicle that he felt cut him off. Is it common for an express Bus driver to do this? We were very disturbed by his behavior and felt it was unnecessary. We were about 6 rows away from the front of the bus. I'm wondering if we should report this situation.

I have a question to ask, I have a current B class CDL license with passenger endorsement with no air brake restriction but with K restriction. Now I also have a class B learner permit license for school bus endorsement but the learner permit license has a no passenger in a cmv bus restriction on it. How will this affect my pre employment for MTA bus operator?

Hey everyone! I’m a local developer who commutes daily and was getting incredibly frustrated constantly bouncing between Google Maps, the MTA TrainTime app, and the NJ Transit app just to figure out when my specific train was leaving and what track it was on.

Most routing apps force you to type in your destination every single time. I wanted an app that works more like a "Saved Commute" dashboard where you open it and your specific, daily trains are just there.

So, over the last few months, I built Commute NYC.

What it actually does:

• Aggregates Everything: Combines live MTA (subways/buses), LIRR, Metro-North, NJ Transit, PATH, and NYC/Staten Island Ferries into one unified feed.
• Commute Cards: You save your "Origin to Destination" pairs (e.g., Woodbridge to NY Penn, or Grand Central to Jamaica). When you open the app, it shows you real-time ETAs and live Track Numbers for just those routes.
• Proximity Sorting: It uses your location to automatically bring the station you are currently standing closest to right to the top of your screen.
• Widgets & Apple Watch: iOS Home Screen widgets and a Watch app so you don't even have to unlock your phone to check what track your LIRR train is on.

If you're a heavy commuter who takes cross-agency trips (like NJT to the Subway, or LIRR to the Ferry), I built this for exactly you.

I'd love for some fellow commuters to try it out and tear it apart! Let me know if a specific bus line is acting weird or if there are features you’d absolutely need.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/commute-nyc/id6758576046

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