While praising the “success” of Phase 1 of the Queens Bus Network Redesign after only one week, Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York City Transit President Demetrius Crislow, in a recent op-ed for Op-Ed for AMNY , stated that the MTA intends to release its p roposed final redesign of the Brooklyn bus network later this year. That would be followed by minor tweaking and implementation.

This is totally unacceptable, given the vast criticism of the first draft issued over two years ago. Rather than a proposed final, the MTA must issue a second draft going back to the drawing boards as they were required to do for Queens.

The process left a lot to be desired. Fewer than 1% of Brooklyn bus riders attended any of the events only publicized on the MTA website, and not on the bus

See Full Page