Bus Lanes: NYC Street Segments and Regulations

Bus lanes are travel lanes restricted to buses during specific hours, often marked 'Bus Only' or painted red to improve traffic flow and rider reliability. Each record represents a segment of a bus lane in New York City, based on the LION geographic base file of streets. The dataset includes detailed operational rules, physical characteristics, and associated Select Bus Service routes for each lane segment.

Use Cases

• Mapping bus lane locations and coverage using SegmentID, Street, Boro, and the_geom.
• Analyzing operational hours and days of enforcement using Hours, Days, and Days_Code.
• Assessing lane physical attributes for planning using Lane_width, StreetWidt, and Lane_Color.
• Identifying corridors with Select Bus Service using SBS_Route1, SBS_Route2, and SBS_Route3.
• Joining to the LION street base file for more detailed geographic context using SegmentID.

Strengths

• Provides a direct link to NYC's authoritative LION street base file via the SegmentID field for enhanced geographic analysis.
• Contains detailed regulatory and physical attributes for each lane segment, including hours, days, direction, lane type, and width.
• Is hosted on multiple official platforms (data.cityofnewyork.us and Data.gov), indicating its status as a core civic dataset.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, license, author, and organization is missing or listed as 'unknown' across all provided sources.
• There is a conflict in the reported 'last updated' date between sources (2026-04-12 vs. 2025-09-16), casting doubt on data freshness.
• The dataset's completeness and scale are unclear due to the absence of row count and size information.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us

Collection Method

Derived from the LION geographic base file of NYC streets.

Freshness

2026-04-12 06:11:08.203867 (conflict with 2025-09-16 noted in limitations)

Geography

New York City, New York, USA