The horn-banging frustrations of Boro Park drivers at 8:30 in the morning have been there for decades. A partial solution was introduced in 2006 by then-Councilman #SimchaFelder, currently a state senator, to block off to garbage trucks several blocks throughout Boro Park for an hour in the morning.

But it rapidly grew out of control in the past three years, when a new law helped mosdos buy their own fleets of buses. The number of buses went from about 150 to 350 today.

The law, whose main thrust allowed for the first time for late homecoming yeshivah students to have access to free busing, also permitted parents to allot their busing funds given by the state directly to their children’s yeshivah. Previously, unionized bus companies were hired by the state to drive eligible students, with the school having no say over them.

Felder, who authored that law, told Hamodia that the traffic problem was “a good problem to have” relative to the law’s benefits but he thanked de Blasio for the new program.

“Getting government to do anything is almost like winning the lottery,” Felder said. “But, sometimes you win. Which is what happened here. This is something that actually affects people on the street.”

“This is a community which doesn’t ask for much, just to be able to drive to school without being driven crazy,” Felder added. “This was an issue of safety also. Hatzolah cars couldn’t get through. I’m very happy with the city’s renewed commitment to alleviating the traffic congestion.”

Shortly after his election in 2013, de Blasio promised to work toward a resolution of the problem, telling Hikind, a #Brooklyn assemblyman, on the latter’s weekly radio program, “I’m going to work with sanitation to help find a solution.”

“To me,” Hikind told Hamodia on Sunday, “this is going to be one of the most important things happening in our community. The community is growing and there are more schoolchildren than ever before. This is going to be a huge, huge thing.”

Noting that he has worked on this issue since his election six years ago, Greenfield said that de Blasio’s “personal involvement” ensured that it got done.

“We’re very excited that the mayor took a personal interest in this issue,” Greenfield said. “Without the mayor’s involvement — the mayor’s personal involvement — this would never have happened. This is no magic solution but this will improve things tremendously.”

An additional significant change is altering Boro Park’s mostly Monday and Thursday garbage pickup days — which upsets two days of school bus traffic — to Wednesday and Saturday.

Taken together, the two changes will allow the impacted areas to go from 82 trucks per weekday to just seventeen.

The accord also calls for switching four more recycling trucks per day from the day shift to the night shift and adding two additional recycling trucks per week. It will also add three more regular garbage trucks on evening and night shifts.

The plan is budgeted at about $280,000 a year but will save an estimated millions of dollars in lost income from residents waiting in traffic. Schools have also complained that a single delayed bus causes a breakdown in the entire school.

“I can tell exactly when there’s a trash collection day just by the time the buses show up,” said Rabbi #HeshyDembitzer, administrator of Bobover yeshivah.

The contours of the plan are as follows: For residents of 46th St. until 52nd St. and from 8th Ave. to Ft. Hamilton Parkway — and until 11th Ave. from 52nd St. to 61st St. — there presently are Wednesday and Saturday garbage pickup days. That will change to Monday and Thursday and pickups will change to the early hours of the morning.

From 13th Ave. to 18th Ave. from 46th St. until 61st St., pickups will remain on Wednesday and Saturday but will change to nighttime hours.

The city will mail out maps to inform residents of the changes.