Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. on Monday announced an allocation of $1 million for Phase B of select bus service on Woodhaven Boulevard.

The corridor hosts the Q52 and Q53 Select Bus Service. Improvements at the site began in 2017 with 6.85 miles of bus lanes installed on the boulevard, along with alignments; the addition of bus boarding islands and other amenities, such as bus shelters, real-time passenger information, seating and decorative fencing; new safety measures; and refurbished medians.

Since the safety improvements, according to the city Department of Transportation, pedestrian injuries are down 20 percent, cyclist injuries are down 80 percent, motor vehicle crashes are down 36 percent and total incidents are down 33 percent.

A key tenet of Woodhaven Boulevard

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