Select Bus Service comes to Brooklyn’s B44
Line runs from Sheepshead Bay To Williamsburg’s Bridge Plaza
Select Bus Service came to Brooklyn on Monday as officials inaugurated the “super-express” service on the B44 bus, the city’s fifth-busiest bus line.
The bus, which travels along Nostrand, Rogers and Bedford avenues, begins in Sheepshead Bay. It serves such important Brooklyn institutions as Brooklyn College, Medgar Evers College, Kings County Hospital and SUNY Downstate Hospital. It ends at Bridge Plaza in Williamsburg, where riders can transfer to other bus or subway lines.
Select Bus service features “bus bulb” sidewalk extensions that allow passengers to enter more quickly. Perhaps most importantly, rather than swiping their MetroCards on the bus, riders use their cards to buy tickets on separate machines at the bus station, then carry their tickets onto the bus.