Passengers now have leaning rails at these East Village bus stops

This past week, the MTA installed leaning bars (aka, butt rails or butt shelves) at the M8 stop on St. Mark's Place at Second Avenue (above) and the M9 stop on Ninth Street at First Avenue (photo below by Steven) ...

As noted before, depending on your height, the lean machines aren't super comfy. In addition, advocates have criticized the bars for making MTA bus and subway stops less accessible to segments of the population, including people with disabilities. 

However, the MTA says these booty bars cost about $450, compared to over $4,000 for a traditional wooden bench.

This past November, City Hall committed $40 million to putting seating or rear rails at every eligible bus stop in NYC — some 8,750 without a place to sit or lean. The rollout will reportedly take up to 10 years, with 875 stops updated annually.

Let us know if you have seen more of the new "I'm not sitting" bars around... some stops have had them for years.

The bus stopped here ...

Workers this morning demolished the bus stop on Avenue A between Third Street and Fourth Street (thanks to @MKNyland for the photo!) ... this stop for the (pokey) northbound M14A was eliminated ahead of the Select Bus Service that went into effect on July 1.

There are other abandoned bus shelters that will likely be removed soon. Perhaps this will create space for some LinkNYC kiosks? [Ducking]

Updated 1 p.m.

And the bus shelter on the west side of Avenue A between St. Mark's and Ninth Street is gone... thanks to Steven for the pic...



Previously on EV Grieve:
The abandoned bus shelters of Avenue A