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Double Decker: Mayor Mamdani Advances First Busway

in the Bronx, Launches Community Engagement for Three

Bus Rapid Transit Corridors in Brooklyn

Just one week after unveiling historic plan with Governor Hochul to speed up 175

bus routes by up to six minutes, Mayor advances four major transit projects

OUR BUREAU

NEW YORK, NY
ayor Zohran Kwame Mam-
dani and New York City De-
Mpartment of Transportation
(NYC DOT) Commissioner Mike
Flynn have advanced major transit
projects in the Bronx and Brooklyn
that will speed commutes for nearly
200,000 bus riders every day.
The announcement comes just
one week after Mayor Mamdani and
Governor Hochul launched Next
Stop: Fast Buses, Better Service, a
comprehensive plan to make buses up
to six minutes faster on more than 175
routes across the city.
In the Bronx, the City will install
the long-delayed Tremont Avenue
busway later this year. In Brooklyn,
the City is launching a summer of
community engagement to shape im- a bus. From the Bronx to Brooklyn, are just the beginning.” no time to waste when it comes to
mediate improvements and a long- we’re building streets that move peo- “Along Tremont Avenue in the faster bus service. The Bronx is long
term vision for Bus Rapid Transit on ple instead of sticking them in grid- Bronx and all through central Brook- overdue on getting its first busway
three of the borough’s busiest transit lock,” said Mayor Mamdani. “These lyn, slow, unreliable buses are robbing on Tremont Avenue, and today’s
corridors: Flatbush Avenue, Utica Av- projects will make commutes faster, New Yorkers’ of their precious time announcement on central Brooklyn
enue and Church Avenue. make our streets safer and return every day,” said NYC DOT Commis- public engagement shows we are
On Flatbush Avenue, where con- precious time to nearly 200,000 New sioner Mike Flynn. “We want New thinking differently when it comes to
struction is already underway on a Yorkers every single day. That’s exact- Yorkers to have faith in our outreach, reaching bus riders. We’ll be out in
center-running bus lane between Liv- ly what public transit should do.” and that starts with actually delivering the streets talking with New Yorkers
ingston Street and Grand Army Plaza, “Just last week, I stood with Mayor on projects promised years ago, like directly about ways to improve their
the City will build a full Bus Rapid Mamdani and the MTA and commit- on Tremont Avenue, where riders commute and speed up their buses.
Transit corridor by 2030. Bus Rapid ted to bus riders a new era of faster deal with unreliable, over-packed bus- The millions of New Yorkers who de-
Transit delivers faster, more reliable speeds and better trips, all made pos- es every day. We look forward to dis- pend on our buses everyday should
service through dedicated bus lanes sible through a historic collaboration cussing the possibilities for fast buses have a say.”
and busways, techniques that give bus- between state and city leaders,” said through Central Brooklyn this year as The Bronx’s First Busway: Trem-
es a head start at intersections, world- Governor Hochul. “Today, we are we develop exciting proposes for criti- ont Avenue
class stations with more seating and moving full speed ahead, decisively cal bus corridors in the area.” Mayor Mamdani today an-
shelter, expanded public space and advancing projects that will help hun- “Today’s dual bus project an- nounced that the City will install the
greenery and more frequent service. dreds of thousands of riders move fast- nouncements show that from the Bronx’s first busway on Tremont Av-
Since January, the Mamdani ad- er and laying the groundwork for even Bronx to Brooklyn, this Mayor is enue, delivering faster, more reliable
ministration has advanced major proj- more service improvements across the focused on delivering real results for service for 39,000 daily riders while
ects to speed buses along Fordham five boroughs to come.” New Yorkers on better buses,” said making one of the borough’s busiest
Road and 161st Street in the Bronx; “When we said that we were going Elizabeth Adams, Senior Advisor for and most dangerous corridors safer.
34th Street, 116th Street, Madison to make buses faster, we meant it — Fast and Free Buses for Mayor Mam- Tremont serves the Bx36, where
Avenue and Lexington Avenue in now upgrades are on the way in some dani. “The proof is in the pudding — buses current travel as slowly as 5
Manhattan; Marcy Avenue, Flatbush of the City’s most bus-dependent com- and this administration is unsticking mph, and connects riders to nearby
Avenue and Linden Boulevard in munities,” said MTA Chair and CEO stalled projects, rolling out new bus subway routes and the Metro-North
Brooklyn; Victory Boulevard on Stat- Janno Lieber. “This is what happens corridor plans and taking immedi- Railroad service. The corridor is
en Island; and Broadway in Queens. when the State, City and MTA are on ate steps to bring Bus Rapid Transit home to a transit-dependent com-
“New Yorkers should not lose the same page about speeding up ser- to New York City. We aren’t waiting munity, with 72% of households not
hours of their lives sitting in traffic on vice. Tremont and Central Brooklyn because we know bus riders have owning a private car.

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