It’s only the first day of school in the Big Apple, but City Comptroller Brad Lander is already doling out failing grades — for lackluster bus service in NYC.

More than half of NYC’s 332 bus lines received a “D” or worse on a new report card issued on Thursday from the NYC Comptroller’s office. Every MTA city bus line was evaluated for on-time performance, speed and delays as part of the Sept. 4 report, dubbed Life in the Slow Lane: A Report Card for NYC Buses.

The investigation, which ran from June 17, 2024, to June 12, 2025, found that 186 bus lines received an unsatisfactory “D or F” grade. According to Lander, city and state officials can “target interventions” to improve bus performance using a letter-grade system.

The report revealed consistent patterns of “underperformance” acros

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