The B37 bus is back!
Route goes from Bay Ridge to Barclays Center
After four years of waiting, Brooklyn bus riders finally have their B37 back!
The bus began rolling again on Sunday, four years after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) eliminated the bus line as a cost-cutting measure. The MTA announced earlier this year that service would be restored starting June 29.
Since 2010, when the MTA scrapped the B37, transportation advocates, elected officials, members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) representing bus drivers and civic and business groups from Bay Ridge to Prospect Heights had been fighting to convince the agency to reinstate the service.
The Restore the B37 Bus Coalition, a group composed of organizations and elected officials organized a petition drive. Numerous protest rallies were held in Bay Ridge, Sunset Park and other communities to get across the point that Brooklyn needed the B37. The elimination of the bus line meant that riders seeking to travel from Bay Ridge to downtown Brooklyn had to do it in a piecemeal fashion, transferring between different bus and subway lines.