{"id":97595,"date":"2020-10-25T20:06:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T17:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-finally-goes-ahead-with-flushing-busway-six-months-late\/"},"modified":"2020-10-25T20:06:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T17:06:05","slug":"nyc-finally-goes-ahead-with-flushing-busway-six-months-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-finally-goes-ahead-with-flushing-busway-six-months-late\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC finally goes ahead with Flushing busway — six months late"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC finally goes ahead with Flushing busway — six months late<\/strong>”
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\n Queens\u2019s traffic-packed Main Street in Flushing is finally set to become the city\u2019s latest bus-only strip<\/a> \u2014 finally ending months of delays on a project that Mayor Bill de Blasio initially described as \u201curgent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Department of Transportation told the local community board in a letter sent Friday that the project is set to move forward \u201cin the next two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

City Hall\u2019s original plan called for the third-of-a-mile stretch to be converted to bus-only traffic in June. It was supposed to be the first of five busways proposed to make buses more app<\/a>ealing during the COVID-19 pandemic, amid significant pressure from the MTA.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to see this happen as quickly as possible because we need the help now given the crisis we\u2019re in. We have to make it easier for people to get around,\u201d de Blasio said on June 8.<\/p>\n

Sitting at the end of the 7 train, Main Street is one of the city\u2019s surface transit hotspots \u2014 the bus routes along the corridor serve a total of 150,000 people.<\/p>\n

But the plan to convert the strip\u2019s busiest blocks to bus-only ran into loud opposition from some business owners along the corridor, as well as term-limited local Councilman Peter Koo (D-Queens).<\/p>\n

Other bus projects announced for the pandemic face similar obstacles.<\/p>\n

Of the five busways announced in June, just Brooklyn\u2019s Jay Street and now Main Street have actually come to fruition, Streetsblog reported Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of those projects, one is no longer a busway, another is delayed due to local opposition and a third isn\u2019t coming until November \u2014 a month past the mayor\u2019s initial deadline.<\/p>\n

DOT also scrapped plans to make Fifth Avenue car-free and scaled back bus lanes for Staten Island\u2019s Hylan Boulevard, Streetsblog said.<\/p>\n

In separate public appearances on Friday, de Blasio and Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg conceded that the city would fall short of the 20-mile bus lane goal set in June \u2014 which was far less than the 60 miles sought by the MTA.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to do 20 miles by the end of the year. It looks like it\u2019ll be closer to 17, which is a good achievement,\u201d Hizzoner said during an interview with WNYC.<\/p>\n

Trottenberg, meanwhile, told a transit advocacy video conference the city deserves credit for advancing the projects at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis summer we\u2019re not going to quite get to all of them. I apologize for that, but we will get to all the ones we\u2019ve committed to I think sometime by next year,\u201d she said during the event, hosted by Transportation Alternatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always going to be places where putting in a bus lane on a busy commercial corridor is going to be a complicated endeavor.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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