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DOT to Alter Historic Putnam Triangle

Scheduled work to better accommodate B26 bus turns at Grand Avenue and Fulton Street.

The city Department of Transportation will begin work later this year at Putnam Triangle to eliminate a sharp turn for B26 buses headed westbound on Fulton Street.

Transportation planners changed the route of the B26 as a result of to make way for the recently installed Putnam Pedestrian Plaza.

Since last September, buses going west on Putnam Avenue must make a left turn on Grand Avenue and then a sharp right to continue towards Downtown Brooklyn on Fulton Street.

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Shortly after the new route took effect, Clinton Hill resident Tracy Collins shot this video showing buses ocassionally snarling traffic on Fulton Street as the vehicles attempted to negotiate what appears to be an awkward turn from Grand Avenue.

The work on the section will involve a "minor" alteration of the historic triangle at Grand and Fulton, according to the DOT.

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The rerouting of the bus line, along with the elimination of a bus stop on Putnam and Grand avenues, provided more fodder for a small, yet determined, group of pedestrian plaza opponents who want the public space removed and regular vehicular traffic restored.

"Anyone could and did tell your experts that the turns onto Grand and then to Fulton were two turns too far," wrote Schellie Hagan, a pedestrian plaza opponent, in a letter dated Thursday to DOT assistant commissioner Andy Wiley-Schwartz.


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