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Announcements

Verrazzano Bridge Will Widen Brooklyn Approach to Ease Congestion

Verrazzano Bridge. Liena Zagare/Bklyner.The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced yesterday the start of construction to improve traffic flow [http://www.mta.info/press-release/bridges-tunnels/mta-announces-roadway-improvements-verrazzano-narrows-bridge-merge] from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to the eastbound Gowanus Expressway. The project aims to reduce congestion for drivers heading into Brooklyn and Manhattan during

Nonsponsored

Sorry, Robert Moses – City Wants to Cover Parts of BQE With a Park

BIG’s rendering of the capped highway with expanded park, via The Future of The BQE Report [http://council.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/NYCC-The-Future-of-the-BQE.pdf] A 1.5-mile section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) is in danger of collapsing, and officials are frantically trying to come up with

Nonsponsored

Person Strolling on Subway Tracks Suspends Service and Causes Delays on B, Q, and S Trains

This morning, an unauthorized person walking on the MTA train tracks near the Prospect Park stop suspended S and B train service and delayed service on the Q. Around 8 a.m. this morning, an unidentified person was on the train tracks in the vicinity of the Prospect Park station.

Central Brooklyn

B46 Route Camera Enforcement Starts Tomorrow, Fines For Real In 60 Days

B46 Route 2020 via MTAOn the heels of launching bus-mounted camera enforcement along B44 last year, MTA announced today that they will be rolling it out for B46 as well. The new bus-mounted cameras on the B46 Select Bus Service route will begin enforcement on Feb. 20, 2020, MTA says,

Transportation

Utica Ave. Subway Extension Dream Gets a Brooklyn Boost

An SBS express bus at Utica Avenue and Fulton Street in Bed-Stuy, on Jan. 29. 2020. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYBy Jose Martinez and Trone Dowd, for THE CITY. Originally posted on February 11, by THE CITY. The push to extend subway service along busy Utica Avenue in Brooklyn — mused

North Western Brooklyn

Reckless Driver Accountability Act Passes Council 41-5

Mayor de Blasio speaks with protesters, including organizer Doug Gordon, Families for Safe Streets activist Amy Cohen, and Transportation Alternatives Executive Director Paul Steely White, outside the Prospect Park YMCA on Tuesday morning following the Monday, March 5, 2018 crash. Jacklyn Jeffrey-Wilensky/BklynerAdvocacy following the horrific crash that took the

Transportation

Barclays Center Has Subway’s Worst Privately Owned Elevator

By Jose Martinez, THE CITY. [https://thecity.nyc/2020/02/barclays-center-has-subways-worst-privately-owned-elevator.html] A privately maintained elevator at the Barclays Center station was out of service on Feb. 10, 2020. Photo: Jose Martinez/THE CITY Moving between Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and its subway station can be a heavy lift for

News

Bedford Avenue Entrances to Reopen at the Nostrand A/C, Elevators Coming Too

The Manhattan-bound entrance to Nostrand Avenue Station on Fulton Street. Rachel Baron/Bklyner.Work has begun to reopen the Bedford Avenue entrances to the Nostrand Av A/C subway station that were closed some 30 years ago in response to high crime, MTA informed us yesterday. The station is also

Central Brooklyn

Brooklyn Bus Network Redesign: Riders Want Faster Routes, More Buses, and Better Connections

A B35 bus. Ben Brachfeld/BklynerBROOKLYN — Back in October, The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) began to study Brooklyn’s bus network in preparation for a [https://new.mta.info/brooklynbusredesign]redesign and hosted 10 community open houses across the borough [/tell-the-mta-what-you-hate-about-your-brooklyn-bus-route-this-fall/] to solicit input on which routes to fix and

News

Smoke Bombs, Vandalized Subway Stations: Was It Worth It?

Protesters at Grand Central Terminal Friday night. Rachel Baron/Bklyner. MANHATTAN — Friday night, hundreds of protesters gathered at Grand Central Terminal to address perceived growing police brutality on the MTA, and to demand free subway fare for all. It was the culmination of a full day of citywide strikes. The

News

Newly Modernized LIRR Nostrand Avenue Station Opened Today

New canopies and new yellow tactile warning strips at Nostrand Avenue Station. Rachel Baron/Bklyner.BED-STUY — MTA Long Island Railroad (LIRR) President Phillip Eng invited local officials and members of the community to a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly modernized Nostrand Avenue LIRR Station, which opened this morning. The two-track

East New York

Mother Slashed in Face After Child Threw Up in Bus

EAST NEW YORK — A mother was slashed in the face with a knife after her child threw up on an MTA bus. On Tuesday, January 28, around 6.20 p.m., a 31-year-old woman was riding a city bus with her two children, cops said. Her youngest child got sick