The way SBS should be

[Blitz]

This is how BRT is done in South America and is the way it should be done here...

 

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/18/webster-avenue-sbs-could-be-best-in-nyc-with-center-running-bus-lanes/

[trainfan22]

If you're gonna do SBS like that might as well go all the way and do Light Rail IMO.

 

Then again if you build LR then you would have to build a place to store & maintain the vehicles, wheres the SBS buses can just drive to and from the current bus depots.

 

But yea, with this method the "getting stuck in traffic is not a issue anymore, this is a major problem on the BX12 and the M15 S/B approaching the 59th Street Bridge.

 

This would certainty speed up the 44 between Fulton & Church, but this method can't applied to the B44 cause Nostrand is a one way street on this part of the route.

 

With that being said, the rendering in that link is pretty cool, it almost looks like a video game.

[N6 Limited]

This method can work on one way streets, just place the bus lane in the far left lane

[mark1447]

The MTA and NYCDOT has mentioned a similar idea to the M34+SBS, making portions of 34th Street Exclusively for BRT traffic, and local traffic going one direction. This never happened. I think the same also came for SBS15. Not sure about SBS12.

 

Webster Avenue can surely take that design, its a pretty big street. I hope that design could come in, but that I'm not sure with the amount of traffic turning along Webster / US Route 1(CBX - Fordham) portion. For sure Melrose Avenue I can see with ether mix traffic or curbed lanes. If you ban left turns, then MAYBE I can see this working. But for now, not sure.

 

I went to the open house and not a lot of folks were happy with design 3, which is that. Most suggested having signals for the BRT, rather then the regular signals in the street.

[Gorgor]

Yeah, this idea seems like a good idea until someone double parks and forces traffic to drive around them by using the bus lane. Of course in a perfect world if everybody followed the rules then option 3 would without a doubt be the best, but sadly it isn't.

 

And don't say that this will discourage double parking because if people have to unload/load stuff then they're not gonna park a block away only to have to walk back and forth to do so, especially in the cold/rain.