![]() Villar, who moved to the Bronx from the Dominican Republic 33 years ago, is less calm. “I’m just getting accustomed, I’m observing.” In a crisply ironed short-sleeve button-down shirt and spotless black jeans, Barrera has no complaints as he waits for the bus that will take him to his first job in the United States, at an antiques store in University Heights. “He doesn’t know how to move around yet.” “He just got here from the Dominican Republic two weeks ago,” Villar says. Leonardo Barrera, 69, gets on a Bx12 bus, his first time ever on New York City bus since he immigrated from the Dominican Republic two weeks earlier. ![]() ![]() Villar usually takes the subway, but on this afternoon she is accompanying her stepfather, Leonardo Barrera, 69, on his very first New York City bus ride. “It’s his first day of work and we’re running late.” “It’s not coming yet,” Carmen Villar, 52, says in Spanish as she peers east down Pelham Parkway for the Bx12 bus. Here’s what they saw and what they heard about how Bronx passengers rely on bus service – even as they grumble that it is sometimes unreliable. ![]() In the Bronx, daily ridership is more than 500,000 passengers a day, out of a daily citywide ridership of 2.5 million on roughly 6,000 MTA buses.Ĭity Limits and the NYCity News Service at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism sent reporters out to ride some of the Bronx buses on a recent mid-summer weekday. In contrast, the bus system is the poor relative, often ignored or taken for granted, the last resort for people who need cheap, reliable transportation to the many areas of the city that are harder to reach, and probably always will be.īut the bus system is the lifeline, the “jugular,” one rider observed, for millions of people. ![]()
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