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Re: Select Bus Service update on B44 & S79 bus routes |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Feb 13 11:42:17 2012, in response to Re: Select Bus Service update on B44 & S79 bus routes, posted by Mr RT on Sun Feb 12 21:52:20 2012. Another ten months for what?Construction is slated to begin this summer. You know the B44 will remove a traffic lane from Bedford Avenue north of Franklin. DOT doesn't believe that will affect traffic because there is excess road capacity in the area. Remember Bedford lost one of its three lanes to a bike lane in recently. Take away another and there will be one. Now I learn that DOT will remove one of the two lanes along parallel Classon Avenue in the next few months because of excess capacity BEFORE SBS GOES INTO EFFECT. Shouldn't they wait until after SBS to see if that excess capacity will still be excess? So we have a corridor with 5 lanes reduced to 2. That's a 60% decease in road capacity. Traffic congestion will soar. Some traffic will be shifted to the already overcrowded BQE and the B48 on Classon will be further slowed forcing people on to the B44 SBS so the MTA can claim success while they reduce more service on the recently truncated B48. They are doing their best to kill it. |
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