Major traffic changes coming to East Tremont Avenue with launch of Bronx’s first busway

And a big change is coming to a busy transit corridor in the Bronx. The borough's first busway is coming in just a few weeks. News 12's Natalie Hernandez has more on the project aimed at speeding up bus service while changing how drivers get around. More than 39,000 bus riders travel through this corridor every single day. And the city says this busway is designed to get them moving faster. But for everyone else using Tremont Avenue, it's going to take some getting used to. The half mile busway will run along Tremont Avenue, eastbound from Third Avenue to Southern Boulevard and westbound from Southern Boulevard to Belmont Avenue from six a.m. To eight p.m. Buses, trucks, access ride, emergency vehicles and bikes will be allowed to travel straight through. Other drivers can still enter Tremont and pick up or drop off passengers, but they'll have to take the next available right turn off the busway. Parking will stay for bus riders. The change could mean less time sitting in traffic as the city says busways elsewhere have improved bus speeds by as much as 60%. That could help a lot of the public transportation and like I guess tighten up or loosen up the traffic. But drivers will have fewer options to travel straight through this stretch during the day, raising questions for some about where that traffic will go. Instead, it says only truck bus and the cars where they're supposed to drive. This is a bike lane. So what's gonna happen with the cars where they're supposed to drive? That's that's that's not fair. The Tremont Avenue busway is set to launch on September 19th from Tremont Natalie Hernandez News 12.