A cherished bus route might not make a big splash this summer.
The Barretto Point Park Shuttle, a seasonal line to a floating pool built into a barge moored off Hunts Point in The Bronx, will be one of dozens of bus lines soon eliminated unless the MTA gets a state bailout.
Sun-loving kids will have to walk though a sparse and sometimes dangerous stretch of industrial businesses without the bus, which picked up about 14,000 customers from the Hunts Point Station on the No. 6 line last summer and took them to the park.
“We need the bus,” said teen Raymond Batsits, who said he used the shuttle last summer to get to the pool.
He and his friends said the walk without the bus is “long and dangerous.”
Riders are waiting to see if Albany breaks a political impasse and plugs the MTA’s $1.2 billion funding gap, which would halt skyrocketing fares and massive service cuts.