“e tried to straighten it out as much as we could, so instead of going near Hull Avenue, we tried to straighten it out and make it a little more direct.” WITH THE PROPOSED bus route redesign, the BX28 would no longer swing past Tracey Towers. “he Bx28 needed to be rerouted off of Mosholu Parkway and then you’d use Bainbridge to Bedford Park Boulevard,” Dolor explained. Maps of the individual bus routes and the proposed changes hung around the Mintz Auditorium, as Dolor and Rivera briefed guests of the planned changes, particularly for the Bx28, which is slated to be rerouted from its current route on Mosholu Parkway.
Standing under a large projection screen, Dolor then told the crowd, “I know it sounds like a lot, but we’re asking you to consider the tradeoff that you may have to walk a little bit further to get to your bus stop but now your bus trip will be a little shorter.”
“For every bus stop removed, 20 seconds would be shaved off a customer’s ride,” said Dolor, to a crowd left stunned over the proposed changes. Dolor told guests at the follow-up meeting that the plan calls for 400 bus stops to be removed across the borough while increasing the average distance between stops from 882 feet to 1,100 feet. His last presentation a few months back was rolled into the general board meeting, frustrating guests who wanted a full scope of the agency’s plans for the Bronx. 1 meeting at Mercy College was MTA representative Rashid Dolor who had appeared at a CB7 general board meeting a few months before to discuss the plan. Gustavo Rivera where Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) officials once again presented their Bronx Bus Network Redesign plan that would update most bus routes across the borough in the name of savings and efficiency for the cash-strapped agency. More than five dozen Bronxites attended a town hall meeting hosted by Community Board 7 and state Sen. A CROWD OF roughly 60 Bronxites turned out for a public meeting where residents were briefed on the proposed MTA bus route redesign that is expected to take affect in the fall of 2020.
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