Busways

Busway corridors prioritize buses, trucks, emergency vehicles, and paratransit vehicles, making streets safer and more efficient. They are designed to improve bus speed and reliability to benefit the passengers who rely on transit to get around the city.

Most busways offer transit and freight priority, allowing buses and trucks to travel along the entire corridor. Other vehicles, such as taxis and cars, are allowed local access but generally only from side streets, and vehicles must leave the corridor at the next required turn per the posted signage.

Learn more about New York City’s busways below.

Two blue M T A buses drive along ride bus and truck only lanes along Manhattan's 14th Street car-free busway.
The M14 travels on the 14th Street busway

Learn more about the 14th Street Busway and how to travel along the corridor

  • Busway between Third and Ninth Avenues
  • Only buses, trucks, and emergency vehicles have through-access along the corridor
  • Busway is in effect 6am to 10pm, seven days a week
  • Local access is permitted from the north and south only and must take the next right turn off the corridor
  • Busway launched October 2019
  • Busway from Amsterdam Avenue to Broadway
  • Busway is in effect from 6am to 8pm, seven days a week
  • Only buses, trucks, and emergency vehicles have through-access along the corridor
  • Local access is permitted from the north and south only (except at Broadway) and must take the next required turn off the corridor
  • Local traffic may not enter 181st Street via Broadway
  • Busway launched April 2021

Learn more about the 34th Street Busway

  • Busway planned for 34th Street between Ninth Avenue and Third Avenue
  • Busway will be in effect from 6am to 10pm, seven days a week
  • Only buses, trucks, Access-A-Ride vans, and emergency vehicles will be allowed to travel all the way through the busway
  • Local traffic, including for-hire vehicles, will be allowed to turn onto the busway from a side street but must turn at next available right
  • Eastbound only busway from 153rd Street to 160th Street (westbound unchanged)
  • Busway is in effect 24 hours a day, seven days a week
  • Only buses and emergency vehicles have through-access along busway corridor
  • No parking nor loading access along busway
  • Busway launched October 2021
  • Busway between Adams Street and Flatbush Avenue
  • Busway is in effect 24 hours a day, seven days a week
  • Only buses may use busway; truck loading zones are provided on adjacent streets
  • All vehicles may use small sections of Fulton Street to make north-south connections
  • Busway launched in 1970s
  • Busway from Sutphin Boulevard to 168th Street
  • Busway is in effect from 6am to 8pm, seven days a week
  • Only buses, trucks, and emergency vehicles have through-access along the corridor
  • Local access is permitted from the north and south only and must take the next required turn off the corridor
  • Busway launched October 2021
  • Busway from Livingston Street/Smith Street to Jay Street/Tillary Street
  • Enhanced protected bicycle lanes on Jay Street and Smith Street
  • Busway is in effect from 7am to 7pm, Monday through Friday
  • Only buses, trucks, bicycles and emergency vehicles have through-access along the corridor
  • Local access permitted from the east and west only
  • Busway launched August 2020
  • Busway along Main Street between Sanford Avenue and Northern Boulevard (northbound)/37th Avenue (southbound) and Kissena Boulevard between Sanford Avenue and Main Street.
  • Busway is in effect from 6am to 7pm, seven days a week
  • Only buses, trucks, and emergency vehicles have through-access along the corridor
  • Local traffic may enter but must turn at next available right (except at 41st Avenue where a left turn is permitted)
  • Southbound busway began March 2017
  • Northbound busway began January 2021

Learn more about the Tremont Avenue Busway

  • Busway planned for Tremont Avenue from Third Avenue to Southern Boulevard (eastbound) and Southern Boulevard to Belmont Avenue (westbound)
  • Busway will be in effect from 6am to 8pm, seven days a week
  • Only buses, trucks, Access-A-Ride vans, emergency vehicles, and bicycles will be allowed to travel all the way through the busway
  • Local traffic, including for-hire vehicles, will be allowed to turn onto the busway from a side street but must turn at next available right