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Brooklyn also has one combined bus/HOV lane, which runs in the Manhattan-bound direction during morning rush hours and the Staten Island-bound direction during evening rush hours. The lane exists on the Gowanus Expressway north of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The bus lane extends to the Manhattan portal of the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel. [34]
A 2018 XN60 (1108) on the B35 local at Flatbush's Church Avenue/East 18th Street in January 2019, set to short-turn at McDonald Avenue. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) operates a number of bus routes in Brooklyn, New York, United States; one minor route is privately operated under a city franchise.
A dedicated bus lane corridor on Flatbush Avenue was proposed in 2022; [6] [7] at the time, the B41 route traveled at an average speed of 6.5 miles per hour (10.5 km/h). [8] Work on the bus lanes began in 2024. [9] Flatbush Avenue is served by the following New York City Subway stations:
The B44 is the fourth highest ridership bus in Brooklyn, and the seventh highest in all of New York City. The bus, for a portion of its route, parallels the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line (2 and 5 trains), and the majority of the B44 route allows for 300,000 people who live within 0.25 miles (0.40 km) of the service to have north–south connectivity.
The route is operated by MTA Regional Bus Operations, under the New York City Bus and Select Bus Service brands. The B82 was created in 1995 as a combination of two routes: one (former B5) running from Bath Beach to Midwood, Brooklyn , and another (former B50) running from Midwood to Starrett City, via the New York City Subway 's Canarsie ...
The current bus terminal lies on the southern block of the former trolley terminal, with Broadway to the south and South 5th Street to the north. The terminal consists of five lanes or bays, numbered 1 to 5 from north to south. Lane 6 was rebuilt as a station house with MetroCard Vending Machines, and as of 2015, is out of service.
The MTA released a draft plan for Brooklyn's bus network redesign on December 1, 2022. [57] [58] The new plan retains the "BM" prefix and preserves all existing routes. The BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4, X27/X37, and X28/X38 will each be split into three routes: a rush-hour downtown route, a rush-hour midtown route, and an off-peak downtown and midtown route.
The B35 Limited is also being considered for conversion to Select Bus Service, a bus rapid transit system operated by NYC Bus. Bus lanes for the B35 on Church Avenue between East 7th Street and Marlborough Road were put into effect in October 2019. On December 1, 2022, the MTA released a draft redesign of the Brooklyn bus network.