Do any local bus routes actually use the highways

[Joel Up Front 793]

or do they just stick to the service roads, if they have any?

 

I noticed that on route maps, some roads would be labeled a major thruway (i.e. Van Wyck, New England Thruway, etc.) but I don't know of any local routes that do.

[NX Express 292]

Only thing I can think of now is the Bx12+select.

[w8Hou 64]

or do they just stick to the service roads, if they have any?

 

I noticed that on route maps, some roads would be labeled a major thruway (i.e. Van Wyck, New England Thruway, etc.) but I don't know of any local routes that do.

 

Q58 LIE service road.

[R44 CNG 473]

The Q5 and Q85 uses Sunrise Highway

[PATCOman 196]

if you are talking about non-express buses, the M98 uses the Harlem River Drive.

[Mysterious2train 587]

The B83 runs on the Belt Parkway/Shore Pkwy between Pennsylvania Av and Erskine St near Gateway Center Mall. First time I took the B83 to the mall, traffic was light and the trip was very fast.

[Joel Up Front 793]

Q58 LIE service road.

 

I meant if they DIDN'T use service roads and used the highways instead.

[SevenEleven 2,986]

The Q50 does. (When it was the QBx1 local)

[Amtrak7 427]

Using the highways just to cross a bridge: B83, Q44, Q50, S53, S79, S93, M60, M35, S89, Bx12, Bx29

 

Actually routed down the highway not because it is the only way to get through the area: M98, B103

[FamousNYLover 578]

:

Brooklyn that I know:

B83 Belt Parkway (on Mall extention) was very first.

B103 Prospect Expressway- Labor Day (1st Sunday run), very quick.

 

Bronx:

Bx12, Bx12(+) uses I-95.

Bx36 use portion of Cross Bronx Expressway.

 

Manhattan:

M9/M16/M23/M34/M42/M50 use FDR Drive Service Rd

M20 uses West Side Highway/West St

M98 use Harlem River Drive

 

Queens:

Q44/Q50 use I-95 with Q44 use Cross Bronx Expressway also.

 

Long Island Bus:

N88 use portion of highway to cross bridge (forgot name of highway)

[mark1447 685]

The Bx5(Summer WKEND)*, Bx23 and Bx29 as it runs thru I-95 NE Thruway

 

*Bx5 via Pelham Parkway/I95 JCT.

 

If Bee-Line were included here then the BL4/20/21 via I87 Service road.

[Gramps 0]

On the Bee-Line, the #3, #43 and #77 use the Sprain Brook Parkway; the #77 also use the Taconic State Parkway; the #62 uses I-95 and the #78 uses I-87.

[Infamous85 13]

The Q5 and Q85 uses Sunrise Highway

 

Aren't they (along with the N1, N2, N3, & N8) no longer permitted to stop at the bus stop next to Target because it's considered a highway?

 

For some reason I remember earlier this year seeing a paper or something saying so but idk.

[FamousNYLover 578]

Forgot about #62. #75 use Playland Parkway.

[B35 via Church 10,302]

The Q5 and Q85 uses Sunrise Highway

 

...and the Bx35 uses Edward Grant Highway

...and the B7 uses Kings Highway

 

 

lol...

 

seriously now...

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anyway, as was said, the M98 & the B103 are the answers most relevant to the OP's question....

 

I'm not gonna list routes that run in westchester, nassau, & suffolk...

judging by how the initial post was worded, looks as if he's only asking about local routes based out of the boroughs.....

[B35 via Church 10,302]

:

Brooklyn that I know:

B83 Belt Parkway (on Mall extention) was very first.

very first what?

 

B103 Prospect Expressway- Labor Day (1st Sunday run), very quick.

 

Bronx:

Bx12, Bx12(+) uses I-95.

Bx36 use portion of Cross Bronx Expressway.

negative.

 

it uses the service road...

 

Manhattan:

M9/M16/M23/M34/M42/M50 use FDR Drive Service Rd

(lol)

 

M20 uses West Side Highway/West St

M98 use Harlem River Drive

 

Queens:

Q44/Q50 use I-95 with Q44 use Cross Bronx Expressway also.

 

Long Island Bus:

N88 use portion of highway to cross bridge (forgot name of highway)

(yes, about a 4-5 mile portion... nowhere near as short as you're making it seem....

 

btw bro, it's the Meadowbrook pkwy)

 

 

in red....

[FamousNYLover 578]

I meant for B83, I took 2nd day of first extention day to Mall.

[Joel Up Front 793]

Aren't they (along with the N1, N2, N3, & N8) no longer permitted to stop at the bus stop next to Target because it's considered a highway?

 

For some reason I remember earlier this year seeing a paper or something saying so but idk.

 

We both should know that the N3 was dying long before 2010...

 

People just take buses to Roosevelt Field these days because it's a much better mall...

[Q43LTD 778]

Aren't they (along with the N1, N2, N3, & N8) no longer permitted to stop at the bus stop next to Target because it's considered a highway?

 

For some reason I remember earlier this year seeing a paper or something saying so but idk.

Those routes don't stop on Sunrise Hwy period. It was around last year this was implemented

[Eric B 1,073]

the (B15) on the section of the Conduit between where Linden merges into it, and Lefferts. The Conduit is really a service road, but in that stretch (to Lefferts, eastbound, and from Cohancy, westbound), it is like an expressway.

[NewFlyer 230 1,255]

The Q5 and Q85 uses Sunrise Highway

 

It's not a real highway until it reaches Suffolk County

[R44 CNG 473]

It's not a real highway until it reaches Suffolk County

 

I know

[Santa Fe via Willow 6]

In reply to Joel's thread title, I wish SI non-express buses used SI's highways.

 

I have ideas for SI non-express bus routes that would do just that.

 

And what to do & where to go when SI's highways get clogged.

 

Glad to see non-express bus routes in other counties in MTA territory use highways.

[FamousNYLover 578]

Don't S89 bus use portion of highway after crossing Bayonne Bridge onto Prospect Av in Bayonne?

[checkmatechamp13 2,465]

But it doesn't really have a choice-the most direct way to go from the Bayonne Bridge to the train station is to drive down Route 440.