“Dollar” vans are giving the MTA a run for its money in Brooklyn, as riders are increasingly choosing them over service-disrupted subway lines.
Straphangers from Midwood to Prospect-Lefferts Gardens have been strangled by work on the B and Q lines, where Manhattan-bound service has been suspended until fall.
As a result, the vans — some legal, some not, but all charging $2 — are swarming Brighton-line stations such as the ones at avenues M and H.
And on days like today, when the Q line is shut down from Prospect Park to Midtown, riders hop on the vans to avoid the sardine-can conditions on the B.
“I don’t know what I would do without the dollar van. Sometimes they drive too fast, but the MTA bus goes too slow and stops too much,” said Sophia Reddock, 25.