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THE FRANKLIN AVENUE SHUTTLE
Years of neglect had left the Franklin Avenue Shuttle — a four-stop line in Brooklyn — near collapse. But community activists organized over two decades and won a $75 million overhaul of the line in the 1990s. more...

“A lot of people had been pushing to abandon it, to replace it with a bus system. This is so critically important to the community in Brooklyn that it had to be done.”

E. Virgil Conway
(former MTA Chairman)

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