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Of the 55 local Brooklyn routes operated by the New York City Transit Authority, roughly 35 are the direct descendants of one or more streetcar lines, and most of the others were introduced in full or in part as new bus routes by the 1930s. Only the B32, the eastern section of the B82 (then the B50), the B83, and the B84 were created by New ...
On June 27, 2010, due to budget cuts, the B37 bus was discontinued and the B70 bus was rerouted from 7th Avenue to 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge. When the B37 bus was restored in June 29, 2014, the B70 bus was rerouted back from 3rd Avenue to 7th Avenue in Bay Ridge. [5] On December 1, 2022, the MTA released a draft redesign of the Brooklyn bus network.
A 2018 XD40 (7523) on the B60 approaching Williamsburg Bridge Plaza, during the route’s fare-free program. As part of a pilot program by the MTA to make five bus routes free (one in each borough), the B60 was selected alongside the Bx18, M116, Q4 and S46/96 to become fare-free in July 2023.
Bus service numbered the B63 replaced streetcar service on February 20, 1949. [13] In February 2011, the B63 became the first bus route in Brooklyn to test the tracking real time arrival system called MTA Bus Time. [14] [15] The pilot program was implemented after similar technology had been tested on the M16 and M34 buses in Manhattan during ...
X- routes are operated by New York City Transit, while BM-routes are operated by MTA Bus Company. All routes operate nonstop between Brooklyn and Manhattan via the Gowanus Expressway or Prospect Expressway to the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, with some routes continuing non-stop via the FDR Drive to reach Midtown.
The Church Avenue Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, running mainly along 39th Street and Church Avenue between Sunset Park and Brownsville.Originally a streetcar line, it is now the B35 bus route, operated by MTA New York City Bus' Jackie Gleason Depot in Sunset Park.
MTA Regional Bus Operations: Operator: New York City Transit Authority: Garage: East New York Depot: Vehicle: New Flyer Xcelsior XD40 New Flyer Xcelsior XDE40 OBI Orion VII NG HEV: Route; Locale: Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Communities served: East New York, Ocean Hill, Bedford–Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn ...
In June 2020, the B1 was converted into an articulated bus route. Before articulation, Jackie Gleason Depot used to provide additional service to Kingsborough Community College in the A.M. rush with buses that run on compressed natural gas, as well as Flatbush Depot. On December 1, 2022, the MTA released a draft redesign of the Brooklyn bus ...