NYC DOT broke ground this week on new bus lanes along 116th Street in Manhattan, a corridor the agency says carries 65,000 riders a day — one of the busiest crosstown routes in East Harlem.

amNewYork first reported the construction start on August 31, naming the agency (DOT) and the corridor (116th Street) but no contract value, no general contractor, and no completion date. This is a construction-start story, not a bid tab, and the record doesn't give those numbers yet.

For paving and sitework contractors, jobs like this rarely land as one big number — they run through DOT's rolling task-order and street-improvement vehicles, the same delivery model behind the Safe Routes to Schools paving job already on our board (RFI-000142, a $22.5 million estimate across seven Queens schools). If 116th Street is moving, expect more corridors off DOT's bus-priority list to follow the same path: announcement, design, task order.

There's no live solicitation tied to this corridor yet. Contractors chasing DOT's paving, curb, and signal work should track the agency's own bid postings and the NYC Capital Projects Dashboard for the task-order vehicle this job runs under.