Overlooked Red Hook petitions for bus service restoration
By Eric Goldschein
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Two years after the MTA cut bus service to the Red Hook area and left the up-and-coming neighborhood without reliable public transportation, the community's leaders have had enough.
Yesterday, transit riders, elected officials and TWU Local 100 members submitted thousands of signatures to the MTA Board, requesting that the MTA and Gov. Andrew Cuomo work to restore the extensive transit service cuts that have left people throughout Southwest Brooklyn stranded at the curb. State Assembyman William Colton was one of several local politicians to pledge their support to the Red Hook bus restoration cause.