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On Second Avenue Bus Stops, CB8 Ain’t Feeling MTA’s Love
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CB8 members complain this map provided by the MTA fails to account for all the bus stops temporarily taken out of service for Second Avenue Subway construction.
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ommunity Board 8 is demanding the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s presence at its Transportation Comm ittee meet i ngs a nd t hat t he agency release a completed map of when and where the agency will restore East Side bus stops on or near Second Avenue sidelined by subway construction. Though agency representatives insist that CB8 is being kept up to date, board members are clearly unhappy with the quality of communication they’re receiving. During a joint CB8 Transportation Committee and Second Avenue Subway Task Force meeting on December 7, board members ex pected a n M TA represent ative to show up with more details on service returning to bus stops taken out of commission during construction of the Second Avenue Subway. As the line nears it first phase completion, with new stations at 72nd, 86th, and 96th Streets due to open by the new year, CB8 members want to make information about when the avenue’s bus stops will be back in service publicly available, particularly for the neighborhood’s senior residents who frequently use them. In addition to not getting the information they sought, board
members were chag r i ned at MTA’s failure to follow through on commitments to appear before them. CB8 member Tricia Shimamura said she also attended a November 1 meeting where the MTA was absent and failed to at least send over its presentation. “I’m fa i rly f r ust rated about this,” she said. “I think without representatives from the agencies, there’s only so much that can be done. I think it’s a little ridiculous that I’ve been at two meetings now where I expected to see MTA representatives and I haven’t.” For the MTA’s part, its spokesperson sa id t he a gency has received regular input from CB8 via the board’s Second Avenue Subway Task Force as well as the MTA Construction Advisory Committee meetings. The agency’s Kevin Ortiz said the MTA submitted a final bus map to CB8 with all temporarily relocated stops restored to their original permanent locations. As for the absence from CB8 meetings, Ortiz explained that the agency told board members its representatives wouldn’t be able to make it to the December 7 meeting due to “public hearing commitments,” but would attend the January meeting.
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