About 34,000 daily riders of the BX36 endure long waits among buses that bunch along Tremont Avenue.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to wait for the cars to go in order for the bus to go. And I\u2019ll be late sometimes waiting for these cars to go,\u201d rider Ebony Grant said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey could be a little more frequent for it to have a lot less traffic,\u201d rider Patricia Jacobs said.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yet the Adams administration has hit pause on a busway \u2014 from about Third Avenue to Southern Boulevard \u2014 that would virtually prohibit cars from the street between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m., except for pickups and drop-offs, trucks, buses and Access-A-Ride.<\/p>\n \u201cTremont is not dead but Tremont is a project that we will continue having community engagement and meeting with elected officials,\u201d city Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n In a statement, City Hall said the mayor is committed to better transportation but that the busway \u201cremains under review because we were informed by DOT that this project had yet to achieve the level of community support necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis project was also opposed by a local community board and has yet to receive the support of most local elected officials,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n Sources say Community Board 6 did not approve of the busway and expressed concerns, but those sources add the board\u2019s concerns were addressed by the DOT.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not opposed to it,\u201d CB6 District Manager Raphael Moure-Punnett said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t take a position as opposed to the busway.\u201d<\/p>\n Letters obtained by NY1 showed the board was concerned about bus bunching in February and did oppose the plan as presented.<\/p>\n The DOT responded, saying the area of concern showed the bunching was due to multiple bus routes, not the BX36.<\/p>\n However, the agency also made a change to signal timing near the Washington Bridge, where the bus crosses from upper Manhattan.<\/p>\n There were also concerns from some business owners who say people drive and double park to get food.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ll come and buy the food for $20, and you get a ticket. See, it\u2019s affecting us. It makes our business slow down,\u201d said Patricia, a restaurant owner who would only give her first name. \u201cIf it\u2019s sometime when I\u2019ve got that stuff and I move back into my store. I also get the tickets.\u201d<\/p>\n Moure-Punnett knows there will be loading zones, but they never received any answers on enforcement of double-parkers by DOT. Basically, the board was ghosted.<\/p>\n \u201cDOT was going to implement the busway in April,\u201d Moure-Punnett said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s kind of where we left things off. And we stopped getting answers in April.\u201d<\/p>\n Calls and messages to the office of local Councilmember Oswald Feliz have not been returned. It is unclear where he stood on the busway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 34,000 daily riders of the BX36 endure long waits among buses that bunch along Tremont Avenue. \u201cYou…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7448,23953,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,37965,52,26304,11900,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-167669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-app-traffic-transit","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-samantha-liebman","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-traffic-and-transit","21":"tag-transit","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115074957522226644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n