New shuttle service planned for Brooklyn Navy Yard
Spring has almost sprung and so has a new plan for shuttle service that will connect 13 subway lines – including the LIRR – to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Part of an enhanced transportation network set to launch this spring, the shuttle, along with plans for the BQX light-rail connector – a streetcar that Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in February that, if it comes to fruition, would stretch along the waterfront for 16 miles between Sunset Park and Astoria, Queens – will accommodate the over two-million-square-foot expansion now underway at the Navy Yard.
According to the Navy Yard, the direct shuttle will run every 10 minutes and connect to the F, A, C, B, D, N, Q, R, 2, 3, 4 and 5 trains, and the LIRR, serving 83 percent of Yard employees – a number that currently sits at 7,000 but will increase to a projected 16,000 by 2020 – who utilize the subway daily. With the size of the Yard in mind, each drop-off point sits within a five minute walk of the facility.