You are confusing the B36 with the B49. It is true what I wrote. Currently northbound B49 riders can get off at the Voorhies Avenue end of the station without walking. Under your proposal everyone would have to walk from E15 St and Avenue Z as with the B36.
The B36 change also required an extra block walk when before, passengers could board directly in front of the station. The bus stop was replaced with a taxi stand, a great way to encourage bus travel. As for the change itself, the former route required three extra turns. I took a video during the evening rush hour that showed the buses were able to make the turns with virtually no traffic. DOT’s claim that it took much longer because of traffic was a flat out lie. And yes, the route was changed because one person in 40 years was killed by a car crossing the street at E 17 and Avenue Z. We don’t even know the reason for the accident, and a bus wasn’t even involved. A great reason to inconvenience about 3,000 bus riders a day (the sixth highest bus subway transfer point in the borough) by changing the route that I designed.
As for Sheepshead Bay Road being too narrow, why did DOT add parking rather than enforce the No Standing regulations in effect when the bus operated two ways on Sheepshead Bay Road? They caused the current congestion.
As for the B16 using 56 and 57 Street, the current route is much faster than it would be using 60 Street which is plagued with traffic which is why it was opposed by the Borough Park community when this idea was first proposed to them in July 2004. Of course the route should be going straight on Ft Hamilton Pkway anyway.