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Can you believe this?
At the urging of a handful of wealthy suburbanites, the Bronx Zoo and Botanical Garden just invited Mayor Eric Adams to dinner to tell him NOT to improve bus service for 85,000 Bronx riders stuck in gridlock on Fordham Road.
Tell the zoo and garden that they should be ashamed and, if they care at all about equity or the environment, they must instead join riders’ campaign for a transformative busway.
Fordham Road, New York’s second busiest bus route, is like the Cross Bronx Expressway for transit riders. Buses are always packed and they move at a crawl. NYC DOT had planned urgently-needed service improvements for bus riders… until they heard from these powerful institutions.
NYC bus riders are overwhelmingly low-income people of color; the majority are immigrants. Fordham is one of the densest and most transit dependent sections of the entire city—and bus riders deserve better!
Tell the zoo and the garden that their concerns for their patrons who drive in from the Bronx River Parkway – more than a mile from the proposed busway – are misplaced. Tell these two august cultural institutions that sit on City land but have long, troubled histories serving city residents that the policies they advocate must reflect their values.
The zoo and the garden need to stop fighting against better bus service now and use their substantial power to amplify riders’ demand for a busway.
Sign the petition and tell the zoo and garden to let Mayor Adams and Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson know that Fordham Road needs a busway.