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CB 5 outlines its bus redesign priorities to MTA
BY MAX PARROTT
MPARROTT@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
Community Board 5 is stepping into the fray
of the Queen Bus redesign.
The board convened its Transportation
and Public Transit Committee meeting on Tuesday,
Feb. 25, with MTA officials, when the public
was encouraged to come listen and provide feedback
on the Queens Bus Redesign.
While they had plenty of suggestions for the
MTA reps, the committee’s main goal at the meeting
was to listen and outline a few broad goals to
the MTA officials.
The CB5 leaders said their plan is to assign
members to look at different routes and make
recommendations. T
hey are also encouraging residents not just to
submit comments to the MTA online, but also to
the community board so they can keep pushing
for the district residents.
Aside from a few members of the committee
who raised pet concerns, the committee took the
opportunity at this moment in the redesign process
to stress several broad goals: court, airport
and park access.
The MTA made a presentation that covered
details of the redesign’s strategies, displayed
its online resources and went through the main
bus changes in the district one by one. Then
the community board collected feedback from
members of the public that it will use to create a
comprehensive list of suggestions for the MTA.
Photo: Max Parrott/QNS
In addition to the changes at stake in the
Queens redesign, the community board was
also anxious about how it would tie in with the
Brooklyn Bus redesign plan, which will start
going through the same process as the Queens
plan over the next year.
“We rely on those B routes,” said John Maier.
“We do need you to come back to talk to us about
the Brooklyn plan.”
Maier mentioned that the Ridgewood Reservoir
was a destination falling on the Brooklyn
side of the Ridgewood border that he would like
to see addressed in the Queens bus plan. The
community board has long lobbied to get a bus
route to drive directly to the reservoir.
While the rest of the committee’s feedback will
take months to process, the MTA representatives
did have an immediate answer to this particular
point: it will have to wait until the Brooklyn Bus
redesign began.
For more information on the Queens bus redesign,
visit new.mta.info/queensbusredesign.
To submit feedback to the MTA online, visit
shorturl.at/vAH68.
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