Malliotakis pedals Bike & Ride expansion
Assembly member wants program on S79 buses
More passengers should be able to store their bicycles on racks on city buses for the ride between Bay Ridge and Staten Island, according to state Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis, who is pushing the MTA to expand its successful Bike & Ride program to the S79 bus route.
Bike & Ride is already available on two other bus lines running between Bay Ridge and Staten Island — the S53 and S93. The S53, S93 and S79 buses all travel on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge between the two boroughs.
Malliotakis (R-C-Bay Ridge-Staten Island) recently held a press conference at an S79 bus stop on Fourth Avenue and 86th Street in Bay Ridge with Councilmember Vincent Gentile and representatives of the group Transportation Alternatives to call on the MTA to expand Bike & Ride.