By Philip Newman
Transit advocates, elected officials and passengers from throughout the city were scheduled to kick off a campaign Wednesday to reverse what they contend are falling numbers of bus riders and talk about possible solutions to the problem.
The NYC Bus Turnaround Campaign will release a report offering fixes to revamp the slow, unreliable and overcrowded service that has produced a 16 percent decline in bus ridership from 2002-2015 despite the city’s growing population and rising employment.
Officials attending a rally planned in Brooklyn include City Councilman Peter Koo (D-Flushing); state Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Flushing); Veronica Vanterpool, executive director of Tri-State Transportation Campaign and an MTA board member; John Raskin, executive director of Riders Alliance; and other officials.
