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A 2022 XD40 (7864) on the Jamaica-bound Q54 at Metropolitan/72nd Avenues A 2013 C40LF (651) on the Q66 at an old-style bus stop with the timetable box in Woodside, Queens The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) operates a number of bus routes in Queens , New York , United States , under two different public brands.
The Union Turnpike express routes consist of eight bus routes: the QM1, QM5, QM6, QM7, QM8, QM31, QM35, and QM36. They begin at three different termini in Northeast Queens, each running via different corridors. [6][2][3] All eight bus routes run along Union Turnpike west of 188th Street, then along Queens Boulevard and the Long Island Expressway.
In the second draft plan, all Queens-bound express buses were supposed to use the Long Island Expressway; some of the existing routes used Queens Boulevard or Northern Boulevard. [133] This change was reversed in the final plan, [ 134 ] released in December 2023.
Queens has 800,000 bus riders, more than all of Chicago's ridership, Lieber said. But residents, advocates and officials have long bemoaned problems with the current bus network, from slow speeds ...
A final bus-redesign plan was released in December 2023. [ 94 ] [ 95 ] The Q20's branches would be combined into a single route, which would run at all times using the Q20B's existing routing via 14th Avenue; the 20th Avenue routing would be served by the Q76 and a new Q62 route.
Coral Murphy Marcos, Patch Staff. Northern Boulevard is poised to have new bus lanes from Woodside to Corona by spring 2023 as part of the project to redesign Queen's bus network, the Department ...
A final Queens bus-redesign plan was released in December 2023. [85] [86] The Q111 and Q114 would still become "rush" routes with limited-stop sections, and the new Q115 route would make local stops on the corridor, but the Q111's Peninsula Boulevard trips would be retained. [87]: 392–393, 400–401, 404–405
The QBx1 was in operation since at least the mid-1960s under the Queens Transit Corporation, labeled the "Bx1" on Queens bus maps. [17] The route originally operated between Flushing and Pelham Bay Park. [18] By 1968, the QBx1 was extended to Co-op City. [19]