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Bus-t it wide open!
Transit advocates ID likely candidates for BK ‘busway’
John Napoli
A likely candidate for a busway in Brooklyn would be an extension of the Fulton
Mall further east beyond Flatbush Avenue.
busway go? Here are a few
likely test subjects for the
city’s latest progressive transit
scheme.
Utica and Nostrand
avenues
Utica and Nostrand avenues
host some of the busiest
bus routes in Brooklyn,
the B46 and B44 respectively,
which provide a crucial connection
from Williamsburg
to transit-starved neighborhoods
in southern Brooklyn
via local and Select Bus Service
shuttles.
And with both Kings
County and Brookdale hospitals
located there, retrofitting
Utica Avenue in particular
for use as a dedicated
bus route would improve
commutes for both patients
and staff, according to one
transit buff.
“Areas close to Utica Avenue
have the highest concentration
of healthcare workers
who live there and if there’s
any group of commuters we
want to have reliable commutes
it’s that group,” said
Transportation Alternatives
spokesman Marco Conner.
Fulton Street
Already host to a dedicated
bus route between Flatbush Avenue
Extension and Boerum
Place, extending the Fulton
Mall’s bus-only regulations
further east to Green Avenue
in Fort Greene would improve
transit times for four buses —
the B25, B26, B38, and B52.
The city proposed extending
a bus lane all the way to
Grand Avenue in Clinton Hill
in 2017, but walked back the
scheme to only take effect during
a limited time on weekdays
after residents, business
owners, and councilwoman
Laurie Cumbo (D–Clinton
Hill) threw a fit.
“They had to water down
the hours because a small
but vocal opposition,” said
Connor.
Church Avenue
This crosstown artery
services the B35, where the
city recently tried to expand
a dedicated bus lane at the
expense of parking along a
narrow stretch of the route
between Ocean Parkway and
E. 16th Street.
But transit honchos caved
to protests by congregants a
local synagogue by scrapping
the no-parking zone along the
block of their house of worship,
because members worried
they wouldn’t be able to
park there on the Sabbath, according
to a Brooklyn Eagle
report .
Myrtle and Dekalb
avenues
Getting from Bushwick
to Downtown Brooklyn is
a real hassle best exemplified
by subway commutes
along the J, Z, and M trains,
which take commuters from
the borough’s northern frontier
to America’s Downtown
by way of Manhattan!
The route was formerly
serviced by the Myrtle Avenue
elevated train , but that
line carried its last passenger
more than 50 years ago,
and — while the G train offers
some cross town service
— the only contemporary
substitute to the alfresco
train line are a slate of slow
buses including Myrtle Avenue’s
B54, Dekalb Avenue’s
B38, Gates Avenue’s B52, and
Halsey Street’s B25.
Although the design of the
city’s streets would have to
be changed on a city level,
local state Sen. Julia Salazar
(D–Bushwick) recently
came out in favor of a local
busway along this stretch on
Twitter .
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Brooklyn Paper
As transit buffs hail a new
dedicated “busway” installed
on Manhattan’s 14th Street
as both a resounding success
and — perhaps too enthusiastically
— as “sexy,” advocates
are now looking to clear
private vehicles off of Kings
County streets to pave the way
for a bus-only thoroughfare
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“The busway is exciting,
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Street busway as an 18-month
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boulevard closed to all
traffic except buses, deliveries,
drop-offs, and emergency
vehicles.
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scheme didn’t make everyone
happy — the move spawned
protests and legal challenges
by angry residents — but DOT
Commissioner Polly Trottenberg
claimed the busway increased
bus speeds by up to
30 percent, and transit advocates
and progressive pols
have lauded it as the “Miracle
on 14th Street.”
And that miracle comes
amid the Oct. 2nd launch of
a borough-wide revamp of
Brooklyn’s bus network —
where buses crawl at a sluggish
average speed of 7.7 mph
— and Trottenberg has already
hinted that city transit
officials are scheming to slap
down some of the busway’s distinctive
burgundy paint on an
outer-borough roadway.
“Where might we go next?
Stay tuned,” Trottenberg told
Streetsblog . “We’re thinking
about that next. People’s worst
fears did not come to pass and
I hope it’ll be a template for
other parts of the city.”
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