'We will continue to grind at this until we have it right.' 'I am very much aware that we have not yet achieved that goal,' Oddo said in a statement earlier this week. Transit officials and Borough President James Oddo vow the overhaul eventually will improve the commute for more Express Bus riders.

Officials have not confirmed if there would be further tweaks to the Staten Island plan.

The agency reduced the number of routes - originally 26 - and spaced some stops further apart, the first step in what's supposed to be a borough by borough overhaul. The MTA said it was the biggest redesign of a system that had been in place on Staten Island for nearly half a century. 'Overcrowding, people standing on buses, people waiting for buses for extraordinary amounts of time - there seems to be, really, a difference in the amount of frequency and the number of buses,' one bus rider said. Last month, the agency implemented a sweeping overhaul of the Express Bus system, redesigning routes to make service faster and more reliable.īut some riders say the result has been just the opposite and have added about 30 minutes to their commutes.

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