{"id":309499,"date":"2026-07-30T03:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309499\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T03:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:15:54","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-mta-holds-pop-up-information-event-about-new-interborough-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309499\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Mta Holds Pop Up Information Event About New Interborough Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The MTA often says, \u201cStand clear of the closing doors,\u201d but now they\u2019re opening the door to feedback on designing the new Interborough Express (IBX). <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Transit officials held a pop-up event on Wednesday at the Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway subway station, where riders received information about the project and expressed their opinions. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The MTA said the IBX is a light-rail transit project that would connect nearly 900,000 New Yorkers along a 14-mile route from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to Jackson Heights, Queens. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI think it\u2019s a great idea,\u201d said Sadiqq Elcock, an MTA rider. \u201cI think if the MTA can demonstrate the value to the community, I think that would really sell it a lot more.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The project would use 18 IBX stations to connect 17 subway lines, 50 bus routes and two Long Island Railroad stations. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIf there\u2019s a better route to get to Queens from Brooklyn, I\u2019m all for it,\u201d said Yvette D., of Canarsie. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She said this was the first time she heard about the project. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI have family in Queens, and it\u2019s a ride just to get there,\u201d said Yvette. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Transit officials are also conducting an environmental review and said the exact construction timeline depends on the design details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MTA often says, \u201cStand clear of the closing doors,\u201d but now they\u2019re opening the door to feedback&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-309499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309499","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=309499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}