MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said Tuesday that he expects Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s incoming administration to “move quickly” on building the number of bus lanes and busways required by city law — something the Adams administration has missed benchmarks on for several years.
Lieber, during an annual CityLaw breakfast event at New York Law School on Dec. 2, contended the MTA has been “hamstrung” in delivering faster bus service due to what he described as the Adams administration’s “inability” to produce the number of new protected bus lane miles required by city law during its tenure. The legal requirement comes from the 2019 NYC Streets Plan, which mandates the city construct an average 30 miles of new protected bus lanes per year between 2023 and next year.
