{"id":262506,"date":"2026-06-10T22:44:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262506\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T22:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:44:50","slug":"exclusive-dot-proposes-installing-bus-lanes-along-brooklyns-bay-parkway-and-cropsey-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262506\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: DOT proposes installing bus lanes along Brooklyn\u2019s Bay Parkway and Cropsey Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city\u2019s Department of Transportation (DOT<\/a>) proposed installing bus lanes along most of Brooklyn\u2019s Bay Parkway, one of the borough\u2019s busiest bus corridors, on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

In a presentation to Brooklyn Community Board 11 on June 10, DOT officials revealed they plan to paint a mix of offset and curbside bus lanes on Bay Parkway between Avenue J and Shore Parkway, covering nearly all of the thoroughfare that runs between the neighborhoods of Borough Park and Bath Beach. The redesign would also include adding both types of bus lanes on Cropsey Avenue between its intersections with Bay Parkway and 26th Avenue.<\/p>\n

The undertaking is just the latest of many that Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s administration has either freshly launched or restarted after being stalled by his predecessor, Eric Adams. Others include Brooklyn\u2019s Flatbush Avenue<\/a> and Linden Boulevard<\/a>, as well as the Bronx\u2019s Fordham Road<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s focus on adding new bus lanes stems from his campaign promise to make buses, one of the city\u2019s primary modes of public transportation, run faster.\n<\/p>\n

The Bay Parkway\/Cropsey Avenue project is designed to make the combined three miles of road utilized by the MTA\u2019s B6 and B82 bus routes faster for their roughly 80,000 daily riders. The routes are the first- and fourth-busiest in the borough, respectively, according to DOT.<\/p>\n

Fifty-two percent of those living along the corridor commute to work via public transit, according to 2023 U.S. Census data cited by the agency.\n<\/p>\n

In a statement, DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn said buses on the two routes can at times travel at just three miles per hour \u2014 slower than the pace of walking.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cBus riders deserve a fast, dignified commute, and we\u2019re ready to speed things up,\u201d Flynn said. \u201cThis\u00a0redesign will\u00a0increase bus speeds and\u00a0reliability on two of Brooklyn\u2019s busiest bus routes while enhancing safety for pedestrians and better organizing traffic for drivers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The redesign is also aimed at making stretches of the streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians, as DOT has dubbed both priority corridors under the city\u2019s Vision Zero program<\/a> to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries.<\/p>\n

Between 2021 and last year, 30 people were killed or seriously maimed in traffic crashes along the sections of road DOT seeks to reconfigure, according to the agency. Two of those deaths occurred in 2025 alone.<\/p>\n

One of the plan\u2019s safety features is the installation of designated left-turn lanes at 14 high-demand intersections and left-turn restrictions at others, the locations of which will be chosen based upon feedback from Brooklyn Community Boards 11 and 12. Left-turn lanes have been shown to reduce pedestrian and bicyclist injuries by 15% where installed, while left-turn restrictions have decreased by 41%, the agency said.<\/p>\n

The project also calls for DOT to add up to 18 new pedestrian median islands and extensions on both roads, including accessibility upgrades to ramps and signals. The agency will paint curb extensions at some intersections as well.<\/p>\n

The bus lanes, which are mostly offset, will minimize the loss of parking spaces, DOT said. The agency will also retime meters to ensure parking is available and add spots around the corners from busy blocks.<\/p>\n

Moreover, it will designate loading zones for pickups, drop-offs, and deliveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city\u2019s Department of Transportation (DOT) proposed installing bus lanes along most of Brooklyn\u2019s Bay Parkway, one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[101893,101894,46981,98,101895,100,99,101896,101897,6157,22925,41779,9,24,63,101898,12822],"class_list":["post-262506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-b6","tag-b82","tag-bay-parkway","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-community-board-11","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cropsey-avenue","tag-curbside-bus-lanes","tag-dot","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-mike-flynn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-offset-bus-lanes","tag-vision-zero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}