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I miss the last Q44 bus by one light for 20 minutes because one stupid “Baby On Board” FUV didn’t want to move fast enough...and I now have to just miss the train from Jamaica to Cedarhurst, wait an hour for the next one, AND be late to work...because no advocacy group on here wants to care about the most underserved part of Queens/LI. Enjoy your stupid Patriot Day!

To be perfectly honest, I think the bottom line here is...the n24 was probably just not meant to act like a parallel to the n22 by being extended between Roosevelt Field & Hicksville in the first place, considering that’s exactly how it was back in the day. I feel like the way the route was designed, given the ridership, traffic, and runtime, maybe giving away the Old Country Road segment from the n78/n79 to the n24 all those years ago has since overwhelmed the route & it’s reliability in a way. But the question is, if you had to revert the n24 to it’s pre-Hicksville configuration, what do you throw onto Old Country Road?

More like have their morning coffee get spilled all over them.

If there were any other big changes, I probably haven’t noticed them yet (mostly because they don’t specify everything that’s actually changed, the way Bee-Line does).

Fall 2019 Schedule Changes are out: https://www.nicebus.com/Passenger-Information/Summer-2018-Schedule-Changes Things that come to mind: n16 - I’m honestly curious to see how this n16J pilot goes. I really hope that against all odds, it gets expanded to a full-blown express route (maybe with added stops in Mineola & Roosevelt Field). n20 - They really overhauled the schedule with this one (mainly the n20H). Slight reduction in service, but now everything is much more sensibly spaced out than ever before (the former 40 minute gap in weekday evening PM rush shoulder service out of Great Neck was such an eyesore to even glance at). Plus weekday nights & Saturdays are seeing service end later with a new late night trip added out of Flushing to Great Neck. Also, weekend n20H service has this funny looking 65-minute frequency going for it now. Welp, at least it helps the last few of Sunday trips out of Hicksville leave equally apart & later (presumably so people can stay out a little longer). n31/32 - Seeing what trips at what times are designated as n31 or n32 have been incredibly inconsistent during the weekday evening shoulder when Queens-bound service becomes too infrequent too early. Can’t wait to leave work just to be rejected from the last bus for the next hour again, and have to lead 10+ people to Mott/Rockaway to get a Q114 instead. n35 - I do specifically recall that last weekday evening departure out of Westbury being truncated to Roosevelt Field. Apparently it got extended back to Hempstead Transit Center. Odd...

Guess I oughta buy a lottery ticket now, with that kind of luck of predicting stuff...

Here’s a bright idea. How about run trains to Bedford Park during middays to compensate for the once every 1̶6̶ 30 minute train bs. FOH with the 20 bus going too slow and making me just miss the last train for 15 minutes. I propose we crowdfund buffed weekday midday Manhattan to Bedford Park/Woodlawn/Cross County scope of service (or at least begin by bringing back all-day full-time bidirectional BxM4C). Or...tell people to stop going up here when there aren’t enough trains & buses to go around in the first place, so everything stops being too crowded AND slow.

Once again, you are not using your head. If the bus has 20+ standees, all seats filled, and there is a 40+ minute gap between it & the bus ahead of it, how on Earth is there an invisible bus in between them?!

Parsons between Hillside & Archer is another deadzone, at least from my experience.

40 minute gap in Jamaica-bound Q114 service. By the time a bus finally shows up here in Cedarhurst, the Q114 bus ahead is already at Archer Avenue. Completely SRO, zero seats available (I chose to sit on the steps in the back because FOH with standing up for the entire trip). Do you so-called advocates & dispatchers have literally zero self-respect or something?

I do wonder how well the n26 would be able to compete with the n25 & Q46 if it were [hypothetically] buffed to full-time service...

No amount of dispatching is going to stop hundreds of vehicles from gridlocking Rockaway Turnpike & Nassau Expressway everyday, and thus ruining the Q113/114 regardless. Bus lanes on Rockaway Boulevard/Turnpike? Maybe...? But I doubt it’d ever happen or help...

I do have to wonder why should the n24 have to be punished (more than it’s already being punished in general) for the Q36’s absence...just something to think about.

I have to wonder if there’s ever been consideration of routes/trips that are a hybrid of segments of the n22/n24 route pair (i.e.; via Hillside Avenue then Old Country Road or via Jericho Turnpike then New Cassel).

I think having a lot more Q111 buses start/end at Peninsula Boulevard & Rockaway Turnpike would be a good start to “solving” this mess with the Q113/Q114.

It really simmers me that I have to shell out $6 for an LIRR ticket every time there’s a 1 hour gap in Jamaica-bound Q114 service in Five Towns every time I leave work at 7 PM. They should just cross-honor this useless Unlimited Rides MetroCard.

It really simmers me that I have to shell out $6 for an LIRR ticket every time there’s a 1 hour gap in Jamaica-bound Q114 service in Five Towns every time I leave work at 7 PM. They should just cross-honor this useless Unlimited Rides MetroCard.

The Guy R Brewer corridor is a perfect example of both of these ideas in action simultaneously. At the height of rush hour, you’ll see a good three or four Q111 buses pass by before a single Q113 or Q114 shows up. And even then, you best hope it’s using an artic & not an O7 (by which point nothing in life matters anymore). Also, from what I’ve noticed over the past few months, traffic has been piling up severely around the Five Towns Shopping Center area during the daytime/afternoon rush, slowing down any & all Q113/Q114 buses that go through Rockaway Turnpike at that time (turning a seemingly innocent 40 minute trip between Jamaica & Lawrence into as much as an hour plus). You eventually end up with no-shows on the Jamaica-bound side towards the end of the afternoon/evening rush (usually about 6~8 PM). Makes me wonder what could somehow fix this...

Interlining H01 with the H07/X, huh? Sounds like an interesting take. Also, extending the H07/X to Spring Valley was definitely warranted. Of course...you kinda forgot Suffern to White Plains.

Once every 12 minutes out of Bedford Park for points beyond Empire City Casino is so far from enough at the height of the afternoon rush if the bus is always SRO out of the Bronx, because a train terminates at Woodlawn right after the Yonkers Avenue short turn bus in front of us leaves. #more20service

Just missed the last 1C for the next hour because I decided to take a bathroom break instead of holding it in. I propose doubling of 1C service to half hourly frequencies. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Append: It gets better, the one time the 1C decides to use an Artic (#577 no less), I miss the bus.

Finally, peace & quiet at long last. No one else but me on this Q25 LTD bus, at the height of rush hour.

Append: Missing the train I was supposed to make it to has caused a domino effect, making me miss the last Q44 bus before a 20 minute gap. Isn’t this just the greatest?

Poorly timed lights along Sterling Avenue on the W25 line, purposely hold the bus back for literally nothing at Wakefield Avenue, then make us just miss the light at McLean Avenue. Please fix and/or reroute the buses elsewhere. Waiting the maximum possible amount of time for the next train is barely convenient (when they already don’t send trains up IRT White Plains Road at a time when they should)

Forget that. Too many cars keep gridlocking Rockaway Turnpike & Nassau Expressway.