The East Tremont Community is split over whether or not the city should turn a half-mile stretch of East Tremont Avenue into a busway. <\/p>\n
The area is serviced by the BX36 bus line, which the city says has 34,000 riders every day. <\/p>\n
However, a recent report from the New York City Comptroller\u2019s Office says it is late over one-third of the time and has about average speed of under 7 mph, earning it a \u201cD\u201d grade. <\/p>\n
“If you’re going somewhere like school or work, you have to go an hour early,” said Cherelle Barnes, who rides the BX36 every day.<\/p>\n
To try to speed up the line, the city proposed making East Tremont Ave a busway eastbound from Third Avenue to Southern Boulevard, and westbound from Southern Boulevard to Belmont Avenue.<\/p>\n
What that means is while cars would still be able to turn on to individual blocks and park, from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m. every day, only buses, trucks and emergency vehicles would be allowed to drive through it. <\/p>\n
“We need more of that, because its very frustrating to have to worry about motorcyclists stopping the bus, or people parking in the bus lane,” said Barnes.<\/p>\n
“That would be good for people taking the bus, but I think everybody else is going to be aggravated,” said Sammy Rivera, another daily rider.<\/p>\n
He was right, as local businesses quickly pushed back on the idea.<\/p>\n
“That’s terrible for the commute, for the customers, and for other businesses too,” said Milly Morales, the manager at Webster Drugs – one of the stores on East Tremont.<\/p>\n
Many of them said they rely on people just driving by, seeing their stores and then pulling over to run in – business they would lose if the busway was installed.<\/p>\n
“That would be the worst idea for East Tremont right now,” said Robert Williams, the manager of 784 Hardware. “It’s bad enough there’s a lot of stores closing, that would make it even worse.”<\/p>\n
The city seems to have heard them, as the mayor’s office tells News 12 that they are now “reevaluating” the plan.<\/p>\n
“Tremont is way down, way down, I’ve never seen it so down before,” said Williams. “So that would just kill Tremont completely.”<\/p>\n
The mayor’s office says they will be talking more with people in the community to find what they call a “broader consensus” about what they should do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The East Tremont Community is split over whether or not the city should turn a half-mile stretch of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-212506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115173726464167047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212506","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=212506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}