Buses will move faster on a major Queens thoroughfare, thanks to the construction of nearly eight new miles of bus lanes, NYC transportation officials announced on Thursday.

Hillside Avenue, from 139th Street to Springfield Boulevard, which runs through several communities including Jamaica and Queens Village, underwent a street redesign that includes the installation of bus lanes and bus turning lanes for the 22 MTA bus routes that use the corridor.

The redesign, conducted by the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT), reduces the number of driving lanes by one in each direction, but includes more than 600 additional parking and loading spaces for local businesses that receive deliveries. Specifically, the new layout has a parking lane on each side of the street, one travel lane for veh

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