The city is inviting Brooklyn residents to help shape improvements to three bus corridors in central Brooklyn through a series of public engagement initiatives.
After announcing the Next Stop: Fast Buses, Better Service, a broad action plan to build the next generation of bus service in the five boroughs last week, city officials are encouraging residents to participate in several community engagement programs starting today.
The bus routes first to see these improvements in Brooklyn include the Flatbush Avenue bus corridor, which was announced in September 2025, and on Utica Avenue and the Kensington-JFK bus corridor.
The plan includes making center lanes for bus-only traffic, a phase-in for all-door boarding in 2027, new bus stops and safety measures that looks to speed up buses by 20% and shorten commutes by up to six minutes each way.
“New Yorkers should not lose hours of their lives sitting in traffic on a bus. From the Bronx to Brooklyn, we’re building streets that move people instead of sticking them in gridlock,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement. “These projects will make commutes faster, make our streets safer and return precious time to nearly 200,000 New Yorkers every single day. That’s exactly what public transit should do.”
The Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will develop short-term bus-priority improvements that can be implemented as early as next year while also creating a long-term vision for world-class bus service, including new Bus Rapid Transit corridors on Utica Avenue, Church Avenue and Flatbush Avenue, with Flatbush coming online by 2030.
The community engagement campaign
· An online feedback portal, open July 15 through October 31.
· Bus rider engagement events
· Surveys of riders, pedestrians, local health and educational institutions, businesses and other stakeholders.
· Outreach at Open Streets events, block parties and community events.
Following the summer
