Straphangers board a B54 bus on Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn. File photo by Kevin Duggan
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BY KEVIN DUGGAN
City transit honchos plan
to install the busway along
Jay Street in Downtown
Brooklyn next month, largely
closing off the 0.4-mile stretch
of the roadway between Livingston
and Tillary streets to
through traffi c for cars, while
upgrading the surrounding
bike lanes, according to a Department
of Transportation
spokeswoman.
“Work for the Jay Street
busway pilot is expected to begin
in late August and anticipated
to be fully operational
in early September,” said Lolita
Avila in a statement.
The fi ve-block-long busway
was originally supposed to
debut in August, but agency
bigwigs pushed the schedule
back a month to iron out the
kinks of the new transit and
bike lanes along the thoroughfare,
according to Avila.
“In regards to the delay,
DOT has been diligently
working on technical details
for the busway as well as a
series of protected bike lane
projects in the downtown
area,” she said.
The delay was fi rst reported
by the New York Post,
which detailed how Mayor
Bill de Blasio’s recent batch of
busways were missing their
schedules.
That includes Queens,
where the fi rst of the redpainted
lanes for the people
movers was supposed to arrive
in June, but has stalled
due to opposition from some
local businesses and the
neighborhood’s councilman
Peter Koo, who appropriated
Black Lives Matter references
by chanting “Business Lives
Matter” at a rally in that borough,
according to a Streetsblog
report.
In Downtown Brooklyn,
DOT revealed details to local
community groups and
stakeholders during two July
presentations, showing how
Jay Street will be closed to
through traffi c for cars weekdays
from 7 am to 7 pm.
Local access will still be
available via Willoughby
Street and the MetroTech
Roadway underpass coming
from the east, and a reconfi gured
Johnson Street from the
west. One-way Johnson Street
will fl ip its direction, and the
city will install new protected
bike lanes along that stretch of
roadway.
The planned one-year pilot
follows the successful project
on Manhattan’s 14th Street
last year and Brooklyn’s original
busway on the Fulton Mall,
which dates back to the 1980s.
In the Big Apple, the busway
led to 14 percent more
straphangers aboard the shuttles,
along with allowing buses
to move through their routes
about three minutes faster, according
to DOT data.
Jay Street
busway to arrive
early September
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