Say goodbye to crawling crosstown traffic on 34th Street—or at least most of it. Starting in October, the city will kick off construction to transform the busy corridor between Third and Ninth Avenues into Manhattan’s next major busway. Cars? Sharply limited. Buses? About to get their own express runway through Midtown.

The Department of Transportation says work will begin the second week of October and wrap up by the end of the year, with the new rules going live in November or December. Once in effect, private cars will only be allowed onto the street to reach local businesses and must exit within a block. Translation: No more joyrides across town. Trucks and buses, however, will rule the road from 6 am to 10 pm.

Why the upheaval? The city wants to speed up commutes for the 28,000 dail

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