After Mr. Dinowitz and Mr. Klein held a press conference there in August, the MTA added three buses to the Bx7 line to augment service between West 231st and West 263rd streets, according to a spokesman for the authority. Kevin Ortiz said in an e-mail the MTA also has increased dispatching efforts, adding that the problem is “traffic at several chokepoints along the route such as 168th Street (Columbia Presbyterian Hospital), 179th Street (George Washington Bridge and Bus Terminal) and 225th Street (shopping mall).”

“We will be reaching out to [the Department of Transportation] to see if anything can be done to ameliorate traffic at those chokepoints,” Mr. Ortiz said on Tuesday.

Still, Mr. Dinowitz and his colleagues are calling for permanent additions to the Bx7 and Bx10, extension of the Bx3 route to West 238th Street and extension of Manhattan’s M100 line into the Bronx.

In a phone interview, Mr. Dinowitz called the MTA’s recent additions to the Bx7 line “good, but only sort of a stop-gap, temporary help.”

“We simply need increased service,” he continued. “We want to encourage people to take mass transit. We need to provide good service.”
With the MTA facing perennial budget problems, adding more buses to one part of the city would be a difficult process. But Mr. Cohen, Mr. Dinowitz and Mr. Klein, who recently released a statement on the matter with Community Board 8’s Traffic Committee Chairman Michael Heller, seem determined to maintain pressure on the MTA.

Digital divide criticized

The conversation about the city’s digital divide between people with good Internet access and those without took a new turn this week with a report from Comptroller Scott Stringer on broadband access in the five boroughs.

The analysis found “troubling disparities” in access to broadband Internet “based on age, education level, employment status, race and neighborhood.”

Perhaps no cross-section of the city demonstrated that better than Community Board 8, which includes both Riverdale and Marble Hill.