Remove Bus Stop

04/14/2018 - 15:09

There are 2 very large bust stops that are right across the street from each other . If they removed the bus stops ,adding parking and loading zones ,enforced the rules a little at least the cars would be able to get down the street .Ive been videoing the buses for the last week .3-4 buses come at time and don’t even stop and are empty .They just pile up And block the streets .

Remove Bus Stop

04/14/2018 - 14:58

Once you remove the parking and the cab stand the only thing you will achieve is that Grandma will be crushed by a bus when she steps off the curb when she comes out of the station. The high congestion here works for the pedestrians. The walk everywhere and anywhere they want because traffic moves slow. You don't want a fast bus lane against the side walk. It will fuck up everything.

Remove Bus Stop

04/08/2018 - 10:01

For too long now we have had to deal insanity with the B82 clogging up Kings Highway. First the DOT put that stupid rubber barrier up on KH and East 18th Street. Truck and the Buses, out of necessity keep driving right over it and it is now little rubber stalks blocking traffic. We need the trucks to load and unload. Milk deliveries are completing with buses so the community can have milk and groceries. There is just no respect from the DOT or the MTA for the needs of the community. The B82 should be rerouted off KH. It is the only rational solution. KH nearly CIA was designed as a small town and market place, where people come and meet, and have community. You are proposing ripping it out and then putting camera on every one of us. We don't want this. It is a dagger to the entire community. The MTA talks about 32K people that use the route from END TO END. Our community makes a much more intensive use of our own backyard and the Q train carries far more passangers and is fed by Mil Basin and Gerritsen Beach by 3 buses on the back end of the station. We have no need for the B92 at all and the numbers that use it a peanuts against the over all usage of the district. Through traffic, through central and southern Brooklyn needs to be more rationally routed. It doesn't help that NYC has closed East 16th street for the school on Avenue R. That has put additional pressure on traffic trying to navigate about the station and limits options for bus routes.

Remove Bus Stop

03/23/2018 - 18:49

There is NO room for the buses on Kings Highway between McDonald Avenue and Ocean Avenue. It is OBVIOUS. Route the bus away from this section of Kings Highway

Crowded Bus

03/23/2018 - 18:42

The claims that the B82 is over crowded is a LIE. I ride that bus every day to go to the L train to get to Bushwick where I work. During rush hour, for about 1/2 hour window, the bus is full. It is only crowded when an emergency happens. All the other times the bus is not even half full. Furthermore, the travel time from Ocean Avenue to Flatlands and 96th street on the limited is less than 20 minutes. It takes me 40 minutes to get to Wyckoff and Myrtle Avenue from East 19th and Kings Highway. The solution to the crowding on the central district between Mcdonald Avneue and Ocean Avenue is OBVIOUS. Don't run any buses there. There is no room.

Remove Bus Stop

03/18/2018 - 13:59

The commercial corridor of Kings Highway and especially from McDonald Ave to Ocean Ave is not the place to install a select bus service route and bus only lane. The commercial corridor is a place of commerce and that commerce will be negatively affected via the creation of a bus only lane. Those who ride the bus through the McDonald Ave-Ocean Ave corridor do not shop at the stores. However, those who live in/ near the corridor do shop there and require the on-street parking to access the stores. The loss of the on-street parking while harm the stores' ability to make money, perhaps even causing some of them to close (next time you go down Kings Highway, see how many vacancies there are, this will only add to that number). The store closings will eventually lead to a decrease in the quality of life in the neighborhood and people will move out. Then, the buses will be able to drive without trucks and other cars on the road BECAUSE THERE WON'T BE ANYONE LIVING IN THE AREA OR STORES TO GET DELIVERIES. Is that the end goal? To further push mom & pop stores and their proprietors and customers out of the city? There are ways to modify the bus service so they add value to the neighborhood and there are ways to modify that harm the neighborhood. This sounds like one of those which will harm the neighborhood.

Other

03/17/2018 - 21:32

Have the bus go down avenue P where there are more lanes... implementing the SBS on kings highway is a terrible idea and will hurt local communities and businesses!

Double Parking

03/16/2018 - 23:57

While the proposal would seem attractive and beneficial in the areas that have wider streets and more lanes, we feel that taking away a traffic lane and removing parking at the proposed hours curbside would have a catastrophic impact on the small business owners that have been around for decades. They rely on the customers that frequent their stores for many years. If consumers can’t park they will find other areas to shop where they can park. Our area struggles with driving and parking. We have 2 schools nearby that completely make the streets unpassable between the hours of 8-9 am and 2:30-4:30,while parents pick and drop their children off and double park . There are deliveries being made all day long with nowhere for the trucks to pull over. There is major construction going on at Mcdonald Ave for the next 5 years due to repairs to the F train. Our side streets are completely filled with cars from the tenants that reside in the apartment buildings From Ocean Parkway to East 4th street and buildings on Ave S between East 3rd and Mcdonald Ave as well as the many tenants who reside above the stores along the corridor. The residents on the side streets along Kings Highway suffer daily with consumers blocking driveways and double parking, blocking school buses from safe passage. There is extremely limited parking already off Kings Highway between Ocean Parkway Mcdonald Ave. By removing parking at hours at crucial hours where men ,woman and children work and go to school who are only able to do their errands at those hours ,it would in fact cause even MORE traffic and road blockages. the B82 SBS continue its run down Ave P from Ocean Ave until Bay Parkway. Ave P has 3 lanes and with an offset bus lane ,parking would not be affected and the buses would be able to move at a steady speed. Ave P is mostly residential with a commercial strip only between Ocean Parkway and Mcdonald Ave, so we would not be compromising any business. Rerouting the buses down Ave P would be far cheaper than all the work needed on Kings Highway to accommodate the buses and bus stops and parking. Furthermore by eliminating buses altogether on that stretch of KH, where they can’t pass and pullover, and adding loading zones and more parking to Kings Highway, we would solve the congestion that has plagued this strip for so many years. This solution would be helping the small businesses and shoppers who visit Kings Highway Daily.

Crowded Bus

03/16/2018 - 17:32

Most of us are pedestrians and use mass transit here to get to/from work and do our shopping. The buses are so crowded, and so difficult for seniors and children to ride on, if they manage to get on. We need the little bit of relief that SBS will provide. The people who drive to go shopping on Kings Highway are a vocal minority who already make it difficult for the rest of us to go about our business. Please disregard their vitriol, they will aim it at any new change or progress that is proposed. I propose that they leave their cars at home and enjoy our pedestrian city if they are so worried about their double parking routine being disturbed.

Other

03/15/2018 - 11:38

An SBS on Kings highway will be the last straw that will break the camel's back for businesses on Kings highway. So many small business rely on adequate parking for their patrons to buy merchandise and use their services. Small businesses on the kings highway corridor are already tremendously suffering from the changing retail landscape and from national store's influx into the area. DO NOT ADD AN SBS. This will be by far the DOT's biggest blunder and mistake of the DECADE!!