(NYT) — It has been hailed as the next generation of New York City public transport: a European-style rapid-transit bus system that operates in exclusive traffic lanes and requires passengers to buy tickets from sidewalk kiosks so trips will not be delayed by a single rider struggling for exact change.
But progress, particularly in thetransportation realm, can have its fits and starts. When the system made its Manhattan debut on Sunday along First and Second Avenues, one of the city’s most congested corridors, riders up and down the route displayed the telltale frowns of New Yorkers convinced that their government had wronged them yet again.
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