Morning bus layover proposed at busy S79 stop
Some traffic relief is coming to the busy S79 bus stop on Fourth Avenue.
At a Community Board 10 meeting Feb. 9, MTA representative Melissa Farley announced a proposal to install a part-time S79 bus layover on the corner of 87th Street during morning rush hours.
A layover is an end-of-route location where the bus remains until it is ready to proceed to the first stop of the route where passengers board.
“There’s a lot of bus traffic there,” Farley said. “One of the things we’ve noticed since we opened [the elevator at 86th Street station] is that the S79 buses are backing up and double-parking as they’re waiting to pull into the bus stop on 86th and 87th Street.”