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Climate strike hits Dumbo
Youthful protest highlights communities of color
A young protester addresses the crowd at the protest that kicked off the during
the seventh annual Climate Justice Youth Summit in Dumbo on Sept. 20.
Photo by Caroline Ourso
a theoretical emergency, it’s
something they’re dealing
with right now.”
Protesters read out the
names of the people who died
during the Maria and banged
drums, sang, and chanted in
English and Spanish as they
marched through Dumbo’s
Bridge Street streets to Pebble
Beach around 1 pm.
The protest was followed
the next day by workshops
and speeches for the middle
and high schoolers and college
students to learn about
climate activism, according
to Hudson.
MTA slashing service on B46
Service changes coming to borough’s busiest route
Et tu, B46?
Photo by Elissa Esher
The sting of reducing the
overall amount of buses from
the line will be tempered by
the addition of new longer
buses that will increase capacity
from 85 to 115 riders,
which an agency spokeswoman
claims will result
in a net positive for straphangers.
“When we’re running longer
buses, buses with more
people on it per bus, then
you’re increasing capacity,”
said Amanda Kwan.
The agency announced
the cuts the same day that
advocates rallied in Downtown
Brooklyn against service
reductions to the B38 and
B54, of which, the former was
also affected by a nearly identical
cost-saving scheme, with
less, but longer buses.
Transit officials claimed
the new less-is-more strategy
would enhance reliability
along the route, ensuring
drivers hit their marks and
made stops on time, but riders
claimed that delays and
issues such as bunching continued
to plagued the B38 following
service changes.
“I’ve waited for more than
40 minutes for the buses to arrive,
just to have three of them
come together at the same bus
stop,” said Pedro Valdez-Rivera,
a B38 rider.
The B46 and its express bus
line represent the busiest bus
route in the borough and the
third-busiest citywide, carrying
more than 38,000 riders
a day from Williamsburg
to Kings Plaza in Mill Basin,
through Bushwick, Bedford-
Stuyvesant, Crown Heights,
East Flatbush, and Flatlands
along the transit-starved Utica
Avenue corridor.
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By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
These protesters are
heating up!
While tens of thousands of
students marched against climate
change in Manhattan last
Friday, a group of Brooklyn
youngsters staged their own
protest in Dumbo to highlight
the impact of global warming
on people of color.
Dozens of students rallied
during the seventh annual Climate
Justice Youth Summit
on the second anniversary of
Hurricane Maria, which devastated
Puerto Rico in 2017,
to draw attention to the havoc
that climate change has already
wrought on poorer areas
of the world, according to
one of the organizers.
“For a lot of young people
and the conversation around
the climate strike it’s about
10 years, but this is a lived
experience for so many people
we brought to the protest,”
said AJ Hudson, an organizer
with the Greenwood Heightsbased
Latino community organization
Uprose. “It’s not
By Kevin Duggan and
Elissa Esher
Brooklyn Paper
Transit honchos are applying
a similar suite of controversial
service cuts that drew
protests from B38 straphangers
to the busiest bus route in
Brooklyn.
The Metropolitan Transportation
Authority will run
less buses along the B46
route’s Select Bus Service
from Williamsburg to Mill
Basin starting January 2020,
which will lead to $2.4 million
in savings for the agency,
while forcing commuters to
wait an extra one to three minutes
between buses, according
to a release by the agency.
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