Protesters to MTA: Bring back B37 bus!
“I am 77 year old activist who uses a walker. I have always used mass transit to live my life and that is what MTA has taken away,” said VioletaMaya, who has lived in Sunset Park since 1949 and who charged that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority negatively impacted her life when it eliminated the B37 bus line three years ago.
Maya is one of thousands of people in southwest Brooklyn who are calling on the MTA to restore the bus line, which ran along Third Avenue from Bay Ridge to downtown Brooklyn until the MTA eliminated the line as a cost cutting measure in 2010.
Residents fighting to bring back the bus organized the Restore the B37 Bus Coalition and held a protest rally in Sunset Park on June 15. The rally, which took place in Martin Luther Playground on Second Avenue and 55th Street in Sunset Park, attracted a cross section of elected officials, transportation union leaders, and residents all of whom called for the bus line to be restored.
“The MTA must restore this bus line for me and the people in our community that use it to get to work, health services, school and places of worship,” said Maya, a founding member of the Restore the B37 Bus Coalition.