What months of watching every New York City bus has shown so far.
Rewritten from the numbers every Monday, once the week before is complete.
Local, limited and Select Bus Service routes, each counting once, one point per full week. Speeds include time stopped at stops and lights. Every hour from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. counts equally, and weekdays and weekends are kept apart, so a week the collector caught more mornings than evenings still compares fairly with the rest.
Hollow points are weeks that aren’t comparable: some hour of the day was not caught on at least three weekdays and one weekend day. The lines skip them. Colored marks under the last chart are holidays and service cuts, collection gaps, rain and snow, and method changes; hover a week for details.
Weekday speed with stops by hour of the day, Eastern time. The bars behind the line are buses on the road.
Recent weeks First weeks
The collector does not run from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., so those hours are missing.
Routes grouped by the letters in their names: M, B, Q, Bx and S. Express buses (BM, BxM, QM, SIM and X routes) are a group of their own. Each point is the plain average of the group's weekday route speeds, stops included, in comparable weeks. Each route's figure gives every hour it runs equal weight.
Each dot is a route with at least five buses on the road at a time on average, over the most recent comparable weeks, weekday speed with stops. Further left is slower; higher carries more riders. Slow, crowded routes sit in the top left.
Riders are the MTA's passenger-counter average for weekdays in the latest published month. Routes without counter data sit on the bottom line.
Average weekday boardings across the system, counted by the MTA's on-board passenger counters. The dashed line is paid fare taps.
This month Paid fare taps
The MTA publishes these about a month behind, so this chart lags the others.
MTA published monthly speed
The MTA's monthly figure weights routes by the miles they run, so it sits below the tracker's. It is the series to use for anything longer than this tracker has existed.