By Joseph Morales

On Bedford Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, bus lanes for the B44-SBS run from 7AM-10AM weekays only despite the forecast of heavy traffic daily on this route from almost all day, 7 days a week from 8AM-10PM done by Google Maps. This leads to delays and bus bandwagons with buses being stuck in traffic due to lack of bus priority. In addition, this route is the 5th busiest in the city, with 6,689,127 trips in 2020 according to MTA figures, which can result in more crowding and lost time even in areas further south in Brooklyn that this bus route operates in(Flatbush, Sheepshead Bay, etc). On top of that, this bus route frequently has cars parked in its bus lanes both legally when the lane is not active and illegally which prevent the B44-SBS as well as other bus routes from utilizing them, and thus having to muster space in two lanes of car traffic on Nostrand or Bedford Av in the traffic the routes were designed to avoid.

 

 

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