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Request by MJM Travel, dba Silver Star Transportation, for an intercity bus stop at 810 8th Avenue on the east side of 8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Street
At the regularly scheduled monthly Community Board Five meeting on Thursday, June 08, 2023, the following resolution passed with a vote of 31 in favor; 0 opposed; 1 abstaining:
WHEREAS, MJM Travel, dba Silver Star Transportation, requests an intercity bus stop from the Department of Transportation (“DOT”) at 810 8th Avenue on the east side of 8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, with six daily drop-offs, Monday through Sunday, at 4:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m., 8:45 p.m., and 9:30 p.m., bringing passengers from Atlantic City and Woodbury Commons; and
WHEREAS, The requested location is currently marked No Standing, is already licensed to TopView Sightseeing company, and according to DOT this site allows for the addition of another bus company; and
WHEREAS, Community members expressed serious concern—both at a Community Board Five committee hearing about this application and via multiple emails from residents of the Avalon Midtown West apartment building at this location—about this location being already extremely congested, due multiple existing factors, including:
- Proximity to popular Broadway shows including Wicked
- Customer traffic from the nearby Food Emporium
- Crowds from the Carnegie Diner
- Three nearby subways stations, including a subway station entrance under the Avalon
- Food carts on all corners of the intersection
- Customer traffic for MTB Bank and the Gershwin Theatre
- Major traffic congestion from parking lot entrance under the Gershwin Theatre
- Traffic and congestion from the M104 crosstown bus stop in front and around the corner from the
Avalon
- Red hop-on and hop-off tourist buses operated by TopView Sightseeing
- A Citi Bike station; and
WHEREAS, Community Board Five continues to call on DOT to develop a comprehensive plan for street use in the district in conjunction with the city’s appointed Chief Public Realm Officer, and reiterates its stated position that when the Port Authority’s reconstruction of the Port Authority Bus Terminal is complete, which will include the construction of a new intercity bus terminal, all point-to-point intercity bus service must be taken off the sidewalks of midtown Manhattan and moved into the new intercity terminal; therefore be it
RESOLVED, Community Board Five finds significant concern for the proposed bus stop at 810 8th Avenue on the east side of 8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, including extreme existing congestion at this location from a multitude of factors and concern about an additional bus stop making the congestion even worse.