page_title: Select Bus Service
section_title: B44
hierarchical_section_title: Select Bus Service / Current routes / B44
caption_attribution_description: English: A map of the B44 Select Bus Service.
context_page_description: Select Bus Service is a brand used by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Regional Bus Operations for bus rapid transit service in New York City. The first SBS route was implemented in 2008 in order to improve speed and reliability on long, busy corridors.
  SBS routes use vehicle-segregated, camera-enforced bus lanes; sidewalk extensions for bus stops; relatively long distances between stops; vehicular turn restrictions along corridors; and next-bus travel information screens. The first route was the Bx12 along Fordham Road and the Pelham Parkway; as of July 2019, twenty SBS routes run along seventeen corridors. Twenty more routes are proposed through 2027. However, in summer 2018, the MTA announced that it was considering delaying the implementation of SBS routes outside Manhattan until 2021 because of the city's upcoming bus-network redesign.
context_section_description: The B44 SBS route began on November 17, 2013, replacing the B44 Limited service with Select Bus Service. Initially planned for the end of 2011, then later the summer of 2012, the start date was pushed to November 2013 as the buses for the service did not arrive until early 2013. Unlike other SBS routes, this service involved a significant change in route, and approximately 20 limited stops were eliminated. The elimination of the Avenue L stop, located adjacent to a school, from the SBS route, was controversial, with local elected representatives and community members starting a petition and calling for its restoration. On February 11, 2014, just under three months since its launch, the MTA conceded to community pressure and added Avenue L and Gates Avenue to the SBS route. This bus is based out of the Flatbush Bus Depot. Stops are listed from south to north.
caption: A map showing the B44 SBS (in light blue) with rail connections.
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