Trams

Maybe the geniuses in the department of buses DOB could be creative by offering a plan of encompassing trams low floor design that allows loads of passengers including the disabled directly from the sidewalk in the near future. Such as those ‘passengers appreciate the ease of boarding and alighting from low-floor trams and moving about inside 100% low-floor trams. Passenger satisfaction with low-floor trams is high. Low-floor trams are now running in many cities around the world, including Milan, Dublin, Prague, Riga, Melbourne, Hiroshima, Houston, Vienna, Istanbul and Strasbourg’ - Wikipedia

Imagine that those trams go above surface and lets also assume that they start all the way from the tip of the Bronx to Brooklyn - if the DOB brass are imaginative by observing simple mathematical calculations of what we know then they would start making plans. We know that the population is increasing, we know the price of fuel is increasing, we know there will be tremendous increases in the demand for mass transportation, we know the elderly and disabled are not served by the DOS, and we also know that the buses are being suffocated by traffic which will be constant.

It is obvious that the tram being above surface should be in the plans of the DOB, however do not hold your breath.