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But why? What does this accomplish?

When is the Q25 getting artics?

So the North East Queens Comprehensive Bus Study gets released at the end of September. 6 weeks later we get the announcement of cutting the midday QM1 bus. They had to have been working on the QM1 change before the study was released. Why would they leave it out? Because it was a cut? Or is it because the consultants hired to write the study were busy finalizing the writing of the study while Transit staff was considering maybe cutting the QM1?

They expanded service to the Aqueduct Racino some years ago, sending buses all the way. Then last year they expanded the B13, B83, and Q8 to the new part of the Gateway Center Mall. Other than these kinds of expansions for new visitor-generating uses, when does NYCT ever expand service? What I see is a lot of effort spent on SBS, minor street changes, and no new routes. The Q70 was only "new" because it was really just a branch of the Q33 named something different. Oh, and they extended something (Q19?) to Hallets Point (I don't remember why). But will the Staten Island Bus Study really create anything big and new? Especially since the North East Queens Comprehensive Bus Study created nothing new. Come to think of it: was the QM1 change part of the North East Queens Comprehensive Bus Study? I don't remember seeing it, but I didn't read it cover-to-cover.

I don't spend too much time in Astoria, so this may sound naive: Can anyone explain why the Q66 goes down 35th not 36th? 36th just seems like it would have a bus route on it, and the walk from 35th to the stores on 36th seems weird.

The proposal is for just some of the routes in Flushing to go through Main Street to an off-street terminal--I don't mean that proposal on that blog, I mean the Department of City Planning idea. At the public meetings at the Y, a Korean guy was going on and on about banning buses from Main altogether. Someone countered and said that that was what the bus terminal would do. Then a staff person (I don't know if he was City Planning or DOT or Queens Borough office or what) said that actually, the proposed bus terminal would just house some of the routes that terminate in Flushing, and then only after going through Main Street by the subway first. So imagine the bus boarding area in Jackson Heights for the Q49 and Q33, but triple it and add some layover space. Everybody is talking about this proposal like it's the PABT, but it's just supposed to be for a few routes and not actually get the buses off of Main. Maybe a better comparison would be that terminal in Jamaica just south of Hillside: it has lots of buses there but in no way avoids bus traffic on Archer and Jamaica Aves.

Since it's mostly legal issues separating the depots and the routes assigned, couldn't the state legislature just pass some law creating one entity and nullifying any outstanding legal issues?