Transit

Local buses gained 1.7% on weekday speeds, the new 'Rush' routes 4.6%, and 24 of the city's 25 fastest-improving routes are in Queens, officials told an MTA committee Monday.

The route would run from Randall's Island to SUNY Maritime. Brooklyn, Staten Island and southern Queens greenways get their own workshops starting next year.

State Police and local departments will also target speeding and distracted drivers during the weeklong campaign. Halloween is one of the deadliest nights of the year for pedestrians, especially young children.

Saturday brings the first day of early voting, the last day to register, a free Diwali festival on Broadway and a Sixth Avenue street fair. Expect no 4 train in the South Bronx, no J between Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, and a split G.

On a Friday site tour, Port Authority officials said the deck over the Dyer Avenue approach roads will store buses during construction, then turn into a park. Commuters say the work is already slowing some trips.

The fourth lane in each direction between the Kew Gardens Interchange and JFK opened Friday for buses, taxis and cars with at least two people. Service-road work continues through the end of the year.

The city will add real-time arrival screens to JCDecaux bus shelters in all five boroughs, roughly doubling the 700 stops that have them now, and aims for 2,900 stops by 2030.

Five elevators replaced at the Bronx's busiest station have struggled since April. One, the only elevator to the Bedford Park- and Norwood-bound platform, has been out since June 29 and isn't due back until Jan. 31.

With the MTA's fare-checking teams on hold after two violent incidents, the NYPD says it won't step in. NYC Transit's president expects the investigation to finish mid to late next week.

The agency's largest signal project ever will bring computer-based train control to the Fulton and Liberty Avenue lines from High Street to Ozone Park-Lefferts Boulevard by 2032. A trains skip three Queens stations for nine days next month.

A Council bill introduced Thursday spells out how the city would use the state's new 'Stop Super Speeders' law, as the Mamdani administration says it will triple the number of city-owned cars fitted with the same technology.

The board on Thursday OK'd a full structural rehab of the sunken GWB approach in Washington Heights, where a metal piece and a chunk of concrete fell on drivers in May. Construction would start in 2027 and run to 2030.

The city finished quadrupling its camera network this year. DOT says red light running drops more than 80% where cameras go up, and advocates want Albany to lift the cap when the program comes up for renewal in 2027.

Intro 561-A would replace the 25% share of fines paid to citizen reporters with a flat $125 and add exemptions, including for private buses. Advocates say it would gut the program; the DEP says it faces a backlog of about 230,000 videos.

A new Effective Transit Alliance report says automating the planned Brooklyn-Queens line from day one would allow trains as often as every 90 seconds at lower cost. The MTA board, and the transit workers union, stand in the way.