DOT starts work Fordham Road project to boost speeds on Bronx’s busiest bus corridor

The city Department of Transportation on Wednesday kicked off construction on a long-stalled project to add offset bus lanes to a stretch of Fordham Road — the Bronx's busiest bus corridor, where the vehicles crawl at speeds as slow as five miles per hour during peak times.DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn, during a July 23 groundbreaking ceremony at the intersection of Fordham and Kingsbridge Roads, said the throughfare's buses are often slowed by traffic. The slugglish speeds at which the buse