The project, which was proposed by DOT officials in May, would replace a traffic lane with a bus lane in each direction of 96th Street between First and West End avenues with the goal of speeding up the slow-crawling M96 and M106 routes.
A group of Upper West Siders backed by Councilmember Gale Brewer held a rally on Thursday, arguing the Department of Transporation should drastically scale back its plans to paint a bus lane across 96th Street.
But Brewer — who represents the Upper West Side and parts of Midtown — said the lanes shouldn’t be painted on the West Side, and demanded the DOT consider other ways to speed up bus service in the neighborhood. It’s a change of tone for Brewer, who previously publicly supported bus lane redesigns on 14th, 34th and 181st streets. Other neighbors argued the new bus lanes would make it harder for residents to access the curbs and get picked up by cars, even though the proposal would take away hardly any curb space..It’s the latest instance of a community group pushing back against a street redesign proposed by Adams administration officials.
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