Every New York City bus route’s speed, week by week, since collection began in April 2026.
Weekdays, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern, every hour counting equally. Speeds include time stopped at stops and lights.
Weekday speed with stops, one point per comparable week. The fainter line is moving speed only, the measure this site used before October 2026; the dashed line is weekends. Orange squares are the MTA’s own weekday figure for the route, by month.
Marks along the bottom: holiday or service cut, collection gap, rain or snow, method change. Hover for details.
Weekday speed with stops by hour, Eastern time: the four most recent comparable weeks against the first four. Bars are buses on the road.
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Average weekday buses on the road (not on layover), every hour counting equally, against trips the MTA’s published timetable has under way at the same hours. Timetable data starts Sept. 6, 2026. A trip that doesn’t run pulls the solid line below the dashed one; so does a bus whose GPS isn’t reporting. Watch the gap over time rather than its size.
Average weekday boardings by month from the passenger counters on the buses, beside paid fare taps (OMNY and MetroCard). Both are partial: taps miss riders who don’t pay, and counters miss riders on buses without a working counter. If buses go fare-free, taps stop and the counters remain, so how the two track each other on this route is worth knowing now. A sudden change in the ratio usually means a counting change, not a change in riders.
Grey rows are weeks that aren’t comparable: the collector missed too many hours that week, or the route ran on too few days.
Weekday speed with stops in the latest comparable week, and the change against the average of the four comparable weeks before it. Buses on the road is how many of the route’s buses were in service at a typical weekday moment between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m., not counting buses on layover; hours a route doesn’t run count as zero, so rush-hour-only routes show low numbers. Click a column to sort; click a route for its history.
Changes smaller than a route’s usual week-to-week wobble are shown in grey.