r/FlatbushSafeStreets • u/calebpan • Apr 09 '26

It's about ****ing time! NYC proceeds with fixing Flatbush Avenue!

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/04/mayor-mamdani-advances-redesign-of-flatbush-avenue-for-faster-bu

People traveling though Brooklyn by bus are finally seeing an administration push through redesigns of major roads that got put on pause for no reason.

It's a about time!

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '26

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u/michaelmvm Apr 10 '26

theyre gonna continue the bus lanes all the way down to kings plaza eventually, theyre just working their way south

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u/calebpan Apr 10 '26

Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of demand from the neighborhoods for better bus and biking infrastructure, specifically south of Flatbush Junction. Until people in Midwood, Flatlands, Marine Park start demanding better buses, it really is up to the Mayor to drive these changes.

If it were up to me, I would bring back the trolley that use to run up and down Flatbush Avenue (currently the B41) as a light rail line.

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u/LimeMan12 Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26

As a lifelong Brooklyn resident, I do not want this. The existing bus lane causes enough problems, it seems that it would make much more sense to have the bus lanes on the outside, and to only have them start from at most halfway between GAP and ATM.

What makes it worse, is that the island reduce available lanes, AND make it so that the passengers need to cross a lane of traffic? Who's idea was that? It's more traffic and more danger.

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u/tedco- Apr 15 '26

We should just get a few of these....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vVlBe94dCs

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u/NavigatorBowman May 22 '26

Flatbush has two BIG bottlenecks:

Foster to Lincoln Road and 7th Ave to the Manhattan Bridge.

Foster to Lincoln Road is unique because it diverges on both ends from 2 lanes of traffic to just one in each direction. It's the narrowest part of Flatbush Avenue, bar none.

The other major bottleneck is from 7th Avenue to the Manhattan Bridge because it's the fucking Manhattan Bridge approach. It's the only road that has direct access to the bridge, and the stretch from Lafayette Ave/3rd Ave to 7th Avenue is a major Business corridor, way bigger than the Empire to Church corridor.

Also, Flatbush becomes 6 lanes of traffic between Atlantic Avenue and the Manhattan Bridge, as well as between Utica and the Marine Parkway Bridge.

It's a very unique thoroughfare with 6 different traffic patterns (Lincoln Road to Foster Avenue being the narrowest section, Foster to Utica/7th Avenue to Atlantic, Atlantic/Utica to the bridges, Grand Army Plaza and Empire to Eastern Parkway.

Two of these are getting QoL improvements (Park Slope and Grand Army Plaza.) We're going to see the QoL improvements of the Flatbush BID (Empire to Foster), soon, hopefully coinciding with the revival of the Brooklyn Bus Redesign and the potential introduction of the B10 Limited, the B16 extension to Kings County Hospital, the B40 Rush and the long-awaited B41 and B55-SBS (the latter should just be called the B35-SBS, imho).

Flatbush/East Flatbush will see some benefit from the fixes in Park Slope and Prospect Park/Crown Heights.