B46 (New York City bus)

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Utica Avenue Line
Two Kings Plaza-bound B46 SBS buses; one 2015 XD40 (7309) and one 2018 XD40 (7629), at Utica/Flatlands Avenues in 2018.
Overview
System	MTA Regional Bus Operations
Operator	New York City Transit Authority
Garage	Flatbush Depot
Vehicle	B46 (and supplemental service for B46 SBS): Orion VII Next Generation New Flyer XD40 Xcelsior B46 SBS only: New Flyer XD60 Xcelsior Nova LFS Articulated
Livery	B46 SBS: Select Bus Service
Began service	1800s (trolley line) March 18, 1951 (bus service) 1994 (Limited-Stop service) July 3, 2016 (B46 SBS)[1]
Route
Locale	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Start	Williamsburg Bridge Plaza Bus Terminal (full route; local service only) Bedford–Stuyvesant – DeKalb Avenue / Kosciuszko Street station (SBS terminus; short runs) Crown Heights – Eastern Parkway / Utica Avenue station (rush hour short runs)
Via	Broadway, Malcolm X Boulevard, Utica Avenue
End	Flatlands – Avenue H and Utica Avenue (short runs) Mill Basin / Marine Park – Kings Plaza / Flatbush Avenue & Avenue U (full route)
Length	7.17 miles (11.54 km) (trolley)[2] 7.9 miles (12.7 km) (local bus route)[1][3][4] 6 miles (9.7 km) (SBS bus route)[4]
Service
Operates	24 hours (B46 local)[note 1][5][6]
Annual patronage	5,547,520 (2023)[7]
Transfers	Yes
Timetable	B46 B46 SBS
Route map Williamsburg Bridge Plaza  B46  Marcy Avenue ​ Hooper Street ​ Montrose Avenue Union Avenue Lorimer Street ​ Leonard Street Gerry Street Cook Street Thornton Street Flushing Avenue ​ Park Avenue Arion Place Myrtle Avenue ​ Willoughby Avenue Broadway Dekalb Avenue  B46  Lafayette Avenue Greene Avenue Gates Avenue Putnam Avenue–Madison Street Halsey Street Bainbridge–Decatur Streets Fulton Street ​ Atlantic Avenue Dean Street Prospect Place St. Johns Place Eastern Parkway ​ Carroll Street Empire Boulevard East New York Avenue Maple Street Midwood Street Rutland Road Winthrop Street Lenox Road Linden Boulevard Church Avenue Snyder Avenue Tilden Avenue Beverly Road Clarendon Road Avenue D Foster Avenue Farragut Road Glenwood Road Kings Highway Avenue H Avenue I Avenue J Flatlands Avenue Avenue K Avenue L Avenue M Avenue N Avenue O Fillmore Avenue Flatbush Avenue Avenue T Kings Plaza  B46   B46  Legend SBS & Local stops Local stops  B46  SBS terminal  B46  Local terminal Subway connection ← B45 ← B44 SBS (by borough) ← Q44 SBS (by route number)  {{{system_nav}}}  B47 → B82 SBS → Q52 SBS →

The B46 bus route constitutes a public transit corridor in Brooklyn, New York City. The route runs primarily along Utica Avenue north from the Kings Plaza shopping center through Eastern Brooklyn, with continued service west along Broadway to the Williamsburg Bridge Plaza Bus Terminal. The corridor was originally served by a streetcar line, known as the Utica and Reid Avenues Line, Utica−Reid Line,^[2] Reid−Utica Line,^[8] Reid Avenue Line,^[9] or Utica Avenue Line^[10] until 1951, when the line was replaced by bus service. The bus route is operated by MTA Regional Bus Operations under the New York City Transit brand.

The B46 consistently ranks among the top five busiest routes in New York City, and is the third busiest in Brooklyn after the B82 and B6, serving 13 million riders in 2017.^[7] Because of this, in 2009 the route was selected for conversion into bus rapid transit under Phase II of the city's Select Bus Service (SBS) program, implemented on July 3, 2016. The B46 was also notorious for high incidence of crime and fare evasion; in 2014, the magazine The New Yorker declared the route "the most dangerous bus route in the city", following several crimes such as the killing of a B46 bus driver in 2008.^[11]

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