Overview
- City crews began building center-running bus lanes on Flatbush Avenue on Tuesday between Livingston Street and Grand Army Plaza.
- The redesign adds six concrete boarding islands and about 29,000 feet of new pedestrian space to improve boarding and street safety.
- MTA chair Janno Lieber praised the move and urged camera enforcement to keep drivers from blocking the new lanes.
- Work will run through the fall with crews rebuilding one side at a time, keeping a travel lane open in each direction and retiming signals to limit backups.
- The lanes are designed to speed the B67, B69, B63, B45 and B103, which carry about 132,000 riders a day on a stretch where buses average roughly 4 mph.