Gotham Bus Co.

Q86: - Can buses navigate the section of Douglaston Parkway and 235th Street between the L.I.E. and the Douglaston LIRR station? - Will the community even want buses along there? Q87: - Why not use 217th Street and Spencer to get from Hillside into Bell? - Can buses navigate the narrow section (with the wide medians) between Horace Harding and 48th Avenue? - If you're going to suggest a route linking the eastern Bronx with northeastern Queens, maybe it should use Springfield instead of Bell so it can loop through QCC.

It would be very easy to simply allow that connection as a "walking" transfer. There isn't one, because NST doesn't want "low-class" local buses on its property.

Even the walk from the Q58 (on 41st Road at Main) to the Q28 (on 39th Avenue at Union) is 0.4 mile, which can easily take 10 minutes or longer due to the crowds.

I hope that nobody is planning to combine the Q26 with the Q77. (The only thing I might do with the Q26 is extend it west on 58th Avenue and south on 188th Street to the traffic circle at 64th Avenue to provide an alternative to the Q17 for Flushing access — and even that idea isn't really very compelling.) I agree that the off-peak Q26 should have been kept, but that's probably a lost cause. I also agree with your point on the Q27, which is why I suggested splitting it into two routes in an earlier post.

I still would have revived the Broadway segment but probably as a separate route (B22?).

Q26: It used to go all the way to Queens Village, way back when Hollis Court Blvd ran through to Jamaica Avenue (i.e. before the Clearview Expressway was built). Q27: I agree with the idea of a "Springfield Crosstown" but it should be a separate route. My own idea... - Q27 between Flushing and either QCC or the old Q75 terminal at 230th Street & 69th Avenue; - Q57 between Rochdale and QCC. Q77: No, no, no, leave it alone. Maybe, if the were extended along Hillside, then you could combine Q77 and Q76 to form a "Franny Lew Crosstown" (Q78?).

I agree with renumbering the Glen Oaks branch to Q45. Beyond that, I would do one of the following: leave it alone (easiest and most likely); extend it into North Shore Towers (which NST management would never allow); extend it via Marcus Avenue to L.I.J. with a stop outside NST property (probably not worth the added cost); reroute it via 74th Avenue through the L.I.J. campus to the parking deck bus stop (also probably not worth the added cost); The only other thing I can think of is to combine the two branches into a single service. Eastbound would use Union Turnpike, left Little Neck Parkway, right 260th, left Union Turnpike, left Lakeville, to LIJ. Westbound in reverse. Maybe shorten the Glen Oaks detour by using 74th Avenue between Little Neck Parkway and 260th.

Two notes... CS no longer has that Q58 tripper. It was killed a year ago (January 2015 pick) due to very low ridership. QV has no rush hour trippers, and its school trippers are on Q20A, Q31, Q76.

Why not? Why don't passengers deserve new buses?

You're assuming that the full reimbursement will continue forever. That's not a safe assumption at all. Even if there is no cost to the , it would still be a cost to taxpayers.

Maybe restructure Q38 and Q39 to create two east-west routes... Eliot/Forest route from 60th Av & Otis to Ridgewood 48th Avenue/Penelope route from Queens Plaza to Forest Hills

I know, and it's one of my pet peeves.

Yes, there are TA depots in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island (all of which are part of "the city" and have been since 1898).

Once a bus leaves, you'd never see it again.

Not necessarily. Look at the history of the Q32... Prior to 1994: all TWU. 1994 to June 2010: split TWU-ATU since June 2010: all ATU.

That one had to be renamed because the Upper East Side NIMBY types didn't like to see their buses coming from the West Side Depot.

Not quite. The rebuilt 100th Street can accommodate standard buses, but can't handle the longer turning radius of the RTS. It briefly housed Orion VII's for the M96/M106.

Which neighborhoods do you feel "deserve" those buses?

JA will be rebuilt and enlarged on-site. has already bought 8 surrounding properties for that purpose.

I could easily see the Q58 moved to Grand and converted. (Of course, that would mean moving other routes around and rerouting the Q58 away from those narrow streets in Ridgewood.)

Not necessarily. Some drivers don't like articulated buses, so they pick runs with articulateds (to get the premium pay) and then request standards.

Again, Staten Island maintainers have a reputation (maybe deserved, maybe not) for refusing to do their jobs except on overtime. If management doesn't approve the overtime, then they get only their straight-time pay and buses don't get maintained.

Maybe they'll start maintaining buses, period. Staten Island maintainers have a reputation for doing all work on overtime and refusing to even look at a bus during their 8-hour "straight-time" shifts.

Somebody misunderstood.... - Jamaica is not getting 3/4 of the Novas; 3/4 of 414 is over 300 buses, and Jamaica can barely function with 200. - What "Fresh Pond" meant was that Jamaica will be almost 3/4 Nova's.

His point was that East New York's allotment is completed.