![]() The redesign also incorporates a new service designation, “Rush,” which would add local stops to “transit deserts” and include express service to major destinations. MTA Chair Janno Lieber with NYCT President Richard Davey and DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez in 2022. Some routes, under the plan, have been eliminated altogether, while other corridors would get new lines. The draft redesign incorporates a number of ideas by the MTA to speed up buses, notably increased spacing between stops and a change to some of the routes. Bus speeds in Brooklyn are below the citywide average, at about 7.19 miles per hour, exceeded only by the snail-like buses in Manhattan. ![]() The city’s buses, disproportionately relied upon by low-income residents, are the slowest in the nation, and were averaging just 8.15 miles per hour in February. The streetcar lines have long since been ripped out of the ground. The MTA unveiled its long-awaited draft plan for Brooklyn in December, the fourth such proposal for a borough-wide bus network redesign first floated in 2018 by former New York City Transit President Andy Byford.īyford, a popular Englishman known by many as the “Train Daddy”, had promised to “reimagine” the city’s ancient bus network, which had been unchanged for several decades, and was still based on the streetcar lines that once crisscrossed the city and inspired the name of the Brooklyn Dodgers. ![]() The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says its proposed redesign of the Brooklyn bus network, which aims to improve the speed and reliability of the borough’s notoriously slow bus service, has been getting pushback from riders across many neighborhoods, many of whom have built their lives around commuting on the existing map.
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