A Staten Island entrepreneur, Hassam Khan serves as the director of Transit Retail Business. Among his responsibilities, Hassam Khan develops feasibility reports and scouts vacancies in highly frequented transit terminals and hubs in Staten Island and other areas of New York.
In recent New York City transit news, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced new initiatives as part of his 2019 state of the city address on January 10, 2019. The improvements center on bus and ferry services.
Overseeing a city with the slowest bus system among large U.S. cities, de Blasio vowed to increase bus speeds by 25 percent by 2020. The buses currently average 7.44 miles per hour, and, from 2010 to 2016, New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority witness 60 million fewer bus trips than prior periods. In combination, de Blasio also promised to quicken the speed at which new bus lanes are installed in the city, as well as add two times the number of intersections in which buses receive green light priority.
De Blasio vowed to add new ferry routes between Coney Island, Staten Island, and Manhattan, as well as expand one existing route. These changes are expected to take effect between now and 2021.
