Lee on 30-mile bus lane mandate and BRT factors

With this funding, will DLT be able to meet the 30 miles of bus lanes as mandated by Local Law 195?

As I mentioned, we're working as hard as we can to deliver as many and as much output as we can with the new funding.

With respect to bus rapid transit, bus rapid transit is a high-capacity bus-based urban transit system designed to combine the speed and efficiency of rail transit with flexibility and lower cost of buses.

What factors does DOT consider when deciding to implement BRT?

Thank you for the question, Chair.

Yeah, we're really excited, and we know there's things we can learn from other cities around the world and really taking our bus priority efforts to the next level.

We're really excited that Flatbush Avenue is in construction as we speak, which is really going to be one of the first on-the-ground examples of this type of approach.

That's something, you know, in the BRT spirit.

I'm trying to remember now the question was around...

What factors does your agency consider when deciding to implement?

That's right.

Thank you.

Yeah, so certainly ridership, certainly bus speeds, but we also want to be looking forward to and think about, you know, what's the potential folks may have seen in the...

announcement, I guess it was yesterday or the day before, that the administration's looking to sort of pair transit-oriented development and affordable housing with things like BRT or other rapid transit.

So these are all factors that we consider, and we also work closely with our partners at the MTA because they're also a big piece of this.

A lot of the focus is on the street design and all that.

But the other really important part is how MTA runs the buses and making sure we can maximize the speeds and the throughput.

Does DOT have a process in place at the moment for BRT approval?