Quaglione Creates Petition To Restore X28 Weekend Bus Service

City Council Candidate John Quaglione has created a petition with State Senator Marty Golden aiming to convince the MTA to restore weekend x28 bus service in Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Dyker Heights. Quaglione wrote an editorial to various media outlets in an effort to help his petition gain steam.

Previously, we reported on a similar effort to bring back the x28 led by Assemblyman William Colton and Councilman Vincent Gentile. Despite these efforts, we reported that it was unlikely for the MTA to restore the x28. The MTA said there wasn’t enough demand for a return of the service, considering that a large portion of the x28’s ridership is handled by the D line. The MTA also noted that along the western stretch of the route, former X28 weekend passengers were also served by an X17 bus stop at 86th Street near the Gowanus Expressway, a stop created specifically to compensate for the loss of X28 service.

Quaglione is hoping that his petition changes the MTA’s thinking:

So far, more than 500 people have signed the petition who believe in this service restoration, and I hope many more will.

As time has gone on, since the MTA made the drastic cuts of 2010, much of the service that our community lost has been restored.  However, the X28 weekend service, that serves the residents of Dyker Heights, Bath Beach and Bensonhurst has not, and the fight goes on. I know that Senator Golden and I will not rest until we see those buses again on Saturdays and Sundays.

If you would like to see the x28 bus service return, you can sign Quaglione’s petition by clicking here. Of course, the whole mess would probably be more effective if all the elected officials (and would-be elected officials) simply teamed up to get the job done. But, no, of course not…