In 2002, Schaller Consulting conducted a study on potential bus rapid transit services in New York City. In summer 2018, the MTA announced that it was considering delaying the implementation of SBS routes outside Manhattan until 2021 because of the city's upcoming bus-network redesign. Twenty more routes are proposed through 2027. The first route was the Bx12 along Fordham Road and the Pelham Parkway as of July 2019, the system has expanded to twenty SBS routes along seventeen corridors. SBS routes use vehicle-segregated, camera-enforced bus lanes sidewalk extensions for bus stops relatively long distances between stops vehicular turn restrictions along corridors and next-bus travel information screens. The first SBS route was implemented in 2008 in order to improve speed and reliability on long, busy corridors.

Select Bus Service ( SBS stylized as + select busservice) is a brand used by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Regional Bus Operations for limited-stop bus routes with some bus rapid transit features in New York City.

Limited-stop, with some bus rapid transit features An M60 Select Bus Service bus operates through Morningside Heights, bound for LaGuardia Airport.

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