Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields has asked NYC Police Commissioner Howard Safir to step up enforcement of bus lanes in NYC. She suggested that the NYPD's use of traffic agents riding on Lexington Avenue buses (who would debark and ticket bus lane blockers), be expanded to other Manhattan bus routes. Increasing bus ridership, wrote the Borough President, makes "the timeliness of service and ability for buses to get to bus stops all the more important."