Work underway on new center-running bus lanes along Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office on Flickr
New York City is advancing four major public transit projects in the Bronx and Brooklyn that are expected to cut commutes by up to six minutes for nearly 200,000 daily riders. Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday announced that the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) will begin construction of the long-delayed Tremont Avenue busway later this year and launch community engagement for improvements along Flatbush, Utica, and Church avenues in Brooklyn, three of the borough’s busiest bus corridors. The projects build on last week’s unveiling of the “Next Stop: Fast Buses, Better Service” plan, which aims to speed up service on 50 bus routes across the five boroughs.
“New Yorkers should not lose hours of their lives sitting in traffic on a bus. From the Bronx to Brooklyn, we’re building streets that move people instead of sticking them in gridlock,” Mamdani said. “These projects will make commutes faster, make our streets safer and return precious time to nearly 200,000 New Yorkers every single day. That’s exactly what public transit should do.”
The “Next Stop” plan aims to improve bus reliability through a combination of service changes, traffic enforcement upgrades, and road redesigns. A key component of the plan is improving speeds on 50 “priority corridors,” which currently include 25 of the city’s slowest bus routes…