Brooklynites can expect major construction on Flatbush Avenue this fall as the city begins to install new center-running bus lanes.

The new design for the bus corridor, which runs from Livingston Street to Grand Army Plaza through Downtown Brooklyn, north Park Slope and Prospect Heights, will transform Flatbush Avenue with center-running bus lanes, with vehicular traffic on both sides.

The DOT expects the redesign to significantly reduce cut-through traffic on Flatbush Avenue.

“Today 132,000 daily bus riders are stuck waiting too long for slow buses, drivers are caught in a mess of traffic, and pedestrians are left crossing intersections clogged with vehicles,” New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said on Friday. “These new bus lanes will speed up bus

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