6/7/2023 0 Comments Mta bus time m3![]() “It’s a competition for the street,” said Patafio, who represents Brooklyn bus operators. “Wednesday: bus-scooter, Thursday: bus-scooter, Friday: bus-scooter. “Every day, two or three times, I can get a report of an accident with a bicycle or a scooter,” said JP Patafio, a Transport Workers Union Local 100 vice president, as he scanned alerts of collisions involving buses. In 2019 there were only four collisions that involved MTA buses and e-bikes or e-scooters. That’s significantly higher than the 27 such collisions in all of 2021, when the number rose from 17 in 2020. So far this year, there have been 35 collisions between MTA buses and e-bikes or e-scooters, according to MTA statistics provided to THE CITY. Members and sponsors make THE CITY possible. It is a lot to take in every day and to process on pretty much every block.” “We’re paying attention left, right, middle, inside the bus, outside the bus. “You’re not just paying attention to motorists and pedestrians, but now we have e-bikes, we have e-scooters,” Cruz told THE CITY. ![]() MTA statistics show that collisions between buses and e-bikes and e-scooters have surged since 2019, the year before many were legalized in the city. While Cruz avoided contact with the e-biker, he said the moment highlighted changes to city streets that emerged during the pandemic and the accompanying safety challenges. “At that moment, your heart stops and you fear the worst.” “The e-bike came from a side street as I was pulling into a bus stop and just turned right in front of me,” said Cruz, a bus operator on the M3 route that runs between Washington Heights and the East Village. In the six years Danny Cruz has been driving a city bus, he has been a near-daily witness to a shifting streetscape - one increasingly populated with smaller new forms of transportation.
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