Construction crews have started work on the DeKalb Avenue and Lafayette Avenue bus and bike redesign in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, according to New York YIMBY.
The project reconfigures two of the borough's busiest bus corridors with dedicated bus lanes and protected bike lanes, a type of street redesign that New York City voters just made easier to approve. On Tuesday, city voters passed ballot measures stripping away review steps that used to slow down exactly this kind of project — the City Record's ballot results confirm the measures passed, and the DOT's own project pages describe the standard construction sequence for these redesigns: curb work, concrete islands, signal retiming, then striping.
For a contractor, that sequencing is the opportunity. These jobs break into discrete phases — sidewalk and curb extensions, concrete island construction, drainage adjustments, signal and loop work, then final striping and furnishing — and NYCDOT typically lets them through its in-house capital program or small prime GC contracts rather than one giant package. A paving or concrete sub that's done curb extension work for DOT before has a template for what's coming: more of these corridors, faster, now that the ballot measures cut review time.
The DeKalb-Lafayette job itself is already underway, per the YIMBY report, with no completion date specified in the account. DOT has not published a separate bid notice distinct from its ongoing capital program for this corridor as of this writing.
First reported by New York YIMBY.