crosstown bus

Lateral city transit

A crosstown bus is a bus route that runs across a city rather than toward or away from its center.

In grid-planned cities like New York, crosstown buses travel east-west while most subway and bus lines run north-south: Take the crosstown bus across 42nd Street.

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