Bus Rapid Transit Proposed for Queens to Rockaways Route

New York implemented bus rapid transit with the Select Bus Service, but has yet to develop the kind of busways found in Bogota or Guangzhou. Will a route in Queens deliver the full BRT experience?

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November 9, 2014, 1:00 PM PST

By James Brasuell @CasualBrasuell

Dana Rubinstein reports that officials with the New York City Department of Transportation recently presented three design concepts for a bus rapid transit corridor in Queens for public consideration.

According to Rubinstein, the corridor ranges "from the timid species of bus rapid transit the city and the M.T.A. operate in places like First and Second avenues and 34th Street, to the more robust variety available in cities around the world." Rubinstein describes the latter proposal as "one with buses running along center medians, uninterrupted by double-parked cars or drivers turning right."

"The bus rapid transit route would run along the Q52 and Q53 lines, which run carry some 30,000 riders a day from central Queens into the Rockaways."

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