Eyes on the Street: NYC’s Newest Bus Zones on 23rd Street, Jay Street

DOT crews recently put down new terra cotta paint for buses on 23rd Street in Manhattan and Jay Street in Brooklyn.

In the fall, Select Bus Service will bring faster bus service to the M23's 15,000 daily riders with dedicated lanes, off-board payment, and consolidated bus stops. The bus lanes are set to run eastbound from Ninth Avenue to Second Avenue and westbound from mid-block between First and Second Avenue to Eighth Avenue.

The red lanes are here already -- Streetsblog alum Stephen Miller snapped this photo of 23rd Street looking west from Seventh Avenue.

And in Downtown Brooklyn, there's fresh red paint on Jay Street at the long bus stop alongside the Myrtle Avenue plaza:

DOT's redesign of Jay Street calls for bus drivers to pull across the new protected bike lane to access this curbside bus stop. The red paint treatment is an extra measure that wasn't included in DOT's renderings of the redesign [PDF]. The more the city does to ward off the parking placard abusers drawn to any available curb space on Jay Street, the better. Those plastic posts in the buffer zone may also help keep placard holders out of the bus stop.