MTA board member tells B37 advocates: Keep up the pressure
Transit advocates trying to convince the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to extend the B37 bus route to Court Street instead of terminating the soon-to-be reinstated bus line at the Barclays Center are making significant progress, according to a man with inside information.
MTA board member Allen Cappelli, who has been pushing his colleagues to restore the line to its full Bay Ridge-to-Court Street service, said he was emboldened by the large turnout of community residents at a Jan. 27 meeting of the MTA’s Transit and Bus Committee at the agency’s Madison Avenue headquarters, where the B37 was a topic of discussion.
“It was a very good group of people. I was very pleased to see it,” Cappelli told the Brooklyn Eagle after the meeting. The large turnout reflected the widespread support for the full restoration, he said.