On Friday, the City of Boston and MBTA announced another round of community meetings to discuss “an updated design” for the long-planned addition of dedicated, center-running busway on Blue Hill Avenue, New England’s busiest bus route.
The MBTA considers Blue Hill Avenue one of its highest-priority streets for transit improvements. But Blue Hill Avenue’s busiest bus routes, the 23 and 28, are some of the T’s most crowded routes, and they also rank among the region’s slowest buses.
The T estimates that the new dedicated busway on Blue Hill Avenue will shave 10 to 15 minutes off a typical rush-hour bus trip between Grove Hall and Mattapan Square, and collectively save the neighborhood’s bus riders over 3,000 hours every day…