One piece of New York City's Better Buses Action Plan has been relieved of legal resistance.
"A Queens Supreme Court judge has rejected a bid by business owners to waylay the [New York] city Department of Transportation’s (DOT) busway on Main Street in Flushing," reports Mark Hallum.
The proposed Flushing busway is one of the bus priority projects proposed in 2020 to improve transit service for essential workers during the pandemic as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Better Buses Action Plan. The Flushing Main Street busway is also one of several projects included in the action plan to encounter local resistance.
The Flushing Chinese Business Association and attorney Randall Eng led the legal effort against the project, filing a temporary restraining order and faulting the project for a lack of public input. That restraining order was " summarily denied by Judge Kevin Kerrigan," according to Hallum. Eng is quoted in the article suggesting that his client might still appeal the judge's decision.
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