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Mimi Blye, Appellant, v Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority, Respondent, et al., Defendant.
    Argued June 2, 1988;
    decided July 12, 1988
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Stephen R. Krawitz for appellant.
    
      Lawrence Heisler, Albert C. Cosenza and Anthony J. Bellitto for respondent.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, with costs. Question certified not answered as unnecessary. In view of the undisputed evidence that a direct safe route to the bus was available to plaintiff, the bus company may not be held liable for plaintiff’s injuries (see, MacKenzie v Union Ry. Co., 82 App Div 124, affd 178 NY 638).

Concur: Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Simons, Kaye, Alexander, Titone, Hancock, Jr., and Bellacosa.