Councilmember Brad Lander's office has let us know that the MTA has rejected the extension of the B68 bus during construction on the F and G subway lines. Last month, Ladner presented the MTA with a petition signed by over 1,200 people who find the closing of the 15th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway stations inconvenient.
The letter from the MTA (see below) lists the reasons for why the extension is, by their calculations, unreasonable. Lander disagrees, as his Valentine's Day themed statement shows:
"They have inflated the estimated cost by 400% (by quoting a cost of $375,000 for an all-day extension, when only the morning rush-hour is needed)," says Lander. "The true cost of giving we lovers of public transit a better option during the closings: $95,000, or just 0.003% (that's right, three-one-thousandths of one percent) of the $275 million Culver El reconstruction project. But I guess 0.003% is too much to ask from this relationship. Sadly, like many a careless lover, the MTA believes that we'll come back tomorrow all the same. And we probably will. But it is not the right way to build a long-term relationship."
So, spurned lovers of the MTA in Windsor Terrace, you will just have to keep doubling back until the project is (hopefully) completed in May.
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