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MTA pushing back door bus exits

To speed up Bus Rapid Transit trips even more, the MTA is going to encourage riders to exit from the back of the bus only.

Back-door-only exiting is a pilot program that will be tried out on the longer, accordion-style buses on the BRT route along Fordham Road in the Bronx.

"We'll start there and see where it goes," MTA CEO Elliot Sander said at a meeting of the New York Metropolitan...

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