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Yes that's true but it serves the same purpose that the express bus does. It serves transit deserts where subway service is lacking. Most river side communities don't have express bus service nor do they have easy access to subways. The only boat landing with good alternatives is Roosevelt Island out of all places. You could make a case for Bay Ridge with the X27/37 and maybe Hunters Point but that's still quite a walk from the subway. Even Pier 11 has a fairly long walk up a hill to get to the nearest station.

The ferry actually hasn't been doing too bad with the exception to the Soundview line most of the boat carry a decent load, and provide a decent alternative to the subway/express bus. Also a lot of the places the boats go to are already a hassle to get to with the current MTA network. I've been using the ferry a lot this summer especially towards the Rockaways because the QM16 only runs during peak and waiting 20 min for and and then getting off for the is a hassle.

Has anyone noticed the high number of OG/NG on CP routes? I see them running almost everyday in multiple lines. Does CP have a problem atm?

I really hope Nova'a can pull through in the future. New Flyer's buses aren't as great as they look, and they're slowly start to resemble Gillig's to me. I guess they focus on quantity over quality these days.

I'm pretty sure it's that way only because of construction. But then again I haven't been there in a while so IDK what it's like now

The QM21 stops at Main and Queens Blvd where you an transfer to the subway

TBH Queens Express buses should just have the freedom of choice. Just have a bunch of pre approved routes they can utilize and let the driver choose which pre approved route they want to use. The biggest issue is all the routes are set up for peak service, yet a lot of the operating hours on some of these routes are off peak. While is makes sense to use Queens Blvd at 5-6pm it doesn't make sense to use it at 10am or 10pm. The QM2/20 is probably the most notorious for creating their own routes. In the past buses were all over the place. In some cases I'm not sure what is the official route anymore, especially when it comes to those super expresses as I've seen them use LIE all the way, LIE->BQE->Astoria, and LIE->BQE->GCP. I've had a couple of those buses going via 2nd av and a lot of cases in the early mornings with buses back tracking through LIC and entering the LIE there. One time i had a driver get on the BQE from Northern and take the GCP. and in all the cases where the buses went those different routes we ultimately ended up in Queens early. Now days the only variants I see is 57th vs 59th and GCP vs Van Wyck going towards Manhattan, and the buses are almost always late. These drivers usually know the best route for the time of the day their driving, but when there stuck to route only intended for a small portion of the day it makes it frustrating for everyone traveling outside the peak hours.

Because there isn’t an effective location for the buses to layover at LGA. A bus would have to go to every terminal to drop people off and then go back and go to every terminal again to pick people up. That would take too much time especially with LGA traffic. Additionally if they did have a layover point midway through the airport everyone would board at the earlier terminal to only be kicked off at the next stop for who know how long.

QV’s buses are probably some of the best considering in the express fleet considering how little usage they get.

I though for the weekly Atlantic tickets you didn’t need get the receipt because the proof is on back. Just like how the uni ticket is supposed to be proof of payment.

I remember very well after the nx40’s came, I got on one after taking my SAT and the bus ran out of fuel. While it wasn’t a break down it was really poor planning on their part.

While I’m not sure if the overall numbers that doesn’t give you the whole story. ie. Let’s say you run a bus every hour and get 50 people on a bus and run a another bus every 20 min and get 20 people per bus. Yeah the bus service that runs every 20 min gets more passengers overall bus the bus that runs every hour gets a better usage. The Bee-Line while having a lot of short trips near NYC, it has a lot more people taking those longer trips. It’s very rare to ride a Bee Line bus that is empty for most of its trip regardless of the lines frequency. With NICE the way I see there buses is some of them have abnormally high usage while others barely have any riders regardless of the frequency. ie the n20G/H & n21 is a great example. Look at how much n21 service has been cut over the years because those buses get barely any usage. n20G on the other hand is almost always standees only. As for the the article linked I found that interesting I guess Bee Line finally passed NFTA for 2nd place in largest transit agency. Well that is if you don’t count NFTA’s LRV fleet.

The Bee Line and NICE are both very different. Unlike NICE people actually ride Bee Line even on infrequent services. I’m always surprised at the decent loads buses get traveling some long distances. For NICE routes that should have a higher ridership just don’t. (N26 is a great example of route that really should have more people riding it) My only guess as to why NICE rider ship is so bad is attributed to the driving environments. Long Island has a lot of nice straight, flat and wide roads. While those in Westchester are much more hilly, curvy and narrow. On top of that Bee Line also offer a lot of peak express services that they don’t up charge for. Honestly I’m surprised they don’t charge premium fare on routes like the 17 and 77. NICE on the other hand doesn’t cater much for direct services, on top of that their routes and schedule are changing every few months.

I'm definitely interested in seeing the performance of an all-electric coach demo. I also heard Tesla was going to release all their patents for anyone to use, so I wonder if manufacturers will take advantage of that.

The DOt should've invested in a modular design, like the regular signs. It really doesn't make sense to waste money on things that work in every application.

This is my fault for not checking the forums regularly but that was in reference to the cross honoring and not an e-Ticket. I had the service change posted on my phone in anticipation of the C/R not being aware of cross-honoring on the LIRR. I always take advantage of LIRR cross honoring. Like last I believe was last summer when they were cross-honoring to Jamaica.

How'd they messed that up? Also where the white sign that states the location of the stop?

How many trips could an Electric MCI even do? Express bus service is already pretty iffy, if these buses don't have a similar range (Specifically in the winter) to the diesel counterparts I can see express bus service in the city getting a whole lot worse.

@LaGuardia Link N Tra I recommend creating a new direct Flushing to QCM route.

I’ll say one thing in the past a lot of drivers drivers didn’t have need to actually kick off passengers for layover. They would just see 1 or 2 passengers after Hearld and instead of driving them they kick them off, rather than drive them to their destination. One driver made a false excuse telling me at 12pm that he had to go to downtown but I caught him in the layover spot a couple min later. But agin this was 2 years ago the last time I rode my own express bus was maybe more than a year ago.

I had that problem yesterday. The C/R was literally sat next to me took my phone and just stared at for like a good min. He decide it wasn’t worth the hassle and just left.

It’s good the people are watching and listening, but I still haven’t seen the improvement I need to start relying on Express buses again. I’ve been burned too many times by the QM2/20 kicking passengers off at Herald, no shows, and extremely late buses in the past. During my entire winter break I opted for the LIRR because I just couldn’t trust these buses and seeing what happing in lines like the QM1 isn’t helping. Now days I’ve only use express buses for long or leasure journeys where time isn’t an issue. For Queens the quality of service is at an all time low, rude drivers, crappy buses, & piss poor service. I’m sorry for being a bit more furious then normal but for $6.50 it’s really not worth it anymore. I now change takes time but for some of us it’s not coming fast enough. That being said I do appreciate everything you’ve done and continue doing, and thank you for doing it. I might be back in college now but, I’m crossing my fingers that when I come back it might get better.

I meant to say FDR but it's usually on the shoulders.

Express buses are known to layover on the highway. SI buses do it on the FDR. As for the QM1 situation you guys should reach out to the the transit reporters for local news agencies. Once it's on the media and people are outraged, the MTA will be forced to do something. PIX11 and NY1 both have decent transit reporters and AMNY loves transit news stories. The QM1 situation is mainly only know by those in the express bus community and that is a minority to the MTA. Once everyone knows and is pissed they are more likely to take action.

This is the first time I’ve seen one on the M42 during my winter break and now there’s a second one 5244.