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Opinion: Let’s Put a Real Busway on Atlantic Avenue
Yes, everyone is talking about the city's busway plans for Flatbush Avenue, but Brooklyn’s true corridor for bus rapid transit is its east-west spine.
September 9, 2025
Adams Admin. Will ‘Begin Installing’ Flatbush Ave. Bus Lanes After Years of Dithering
The full plan which includes pedestrian bump-outs and bus boarding islands will have to wait until the spring, officials said.
September 8, 2025
Zapped: ‘Emergency Vehicles’ (Ahem, Cops) Repeatedly Caught Clogging the Jay Street Busway
Squad cars, ambulances, sheriffs department vehicles and other exempted scofflaws are blocking the busway an average of six times every day.
September 5, 2025
RED LIGHT: Tremont Ave. Busway is the Latest Project Stalled by City Hall
Another day, another busway delay.
August 18, 2025
Team Pedestrian Trounces Team Bus in Annual ‘Crosstown Bus Challenge’
Pedestrians beat the bus — but maybe for the last time?
August 8, 2025
DOT Reveals Transformational Plan For Flatbush Ave. — But Needs To Get The Details Right
The bus-first transformation is an ambitious project that could speed buses by 20 percent while also calming the roadway's notorious traffic. But it's not perfect.
August 4, 2025
Here’s A Bus Rapid Transit Plan For New York … If the City Cares
It sure beats the current method of guessing or simply basing the route on how strongly a given neighborhood opposes or supports it.
August 1, 2025
Why No BRT For NYC? Two New Reports Tackle Why Your Bus Service Sucks
Years of bus priority projects barely made a dent in speeds because Big Apple leaders won't install real bus rapid transit, two recent reports argue.
July 11, 2025
Memo to Mayor Adams: Reliable Buses Start with You
Congestion pricing’s success and legacy depends on improving bus service. Mayor Adams must act.
February 4, 2025
Opinion: We Need a Miracle on 42nd Street
Imagine if 42nd Street was transformed from a gritty through-route full of vehicles and fumes into one with much wider sidewalks and bus rapid transit!
May 22, 2024
