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In my life I rode two different buses to my 2 homes. First I rode the Q9 (As a Green Lines Route) up to Van Wyck Expressway. After I moved I started riding the Q83 (Current route). However I notice these two routes have similar paths. For Example

Q9 turn to Van Wyck Expressway-Q83 turn to Murdock Avenue.

Q9 turn to Liberty Avenue-Q83 turn to Farmers Boulevard.

Q9 turn to 135 Street from Lincoln Street-Q83 turn from Springfield Boulevard to Murdock Avenue.

And then some....

 

Know other routes that do this type of thing can say so too.

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Long Island Bus shares this phenomenon quite often, like the N20/N21 where free transfers don't count if you feel like cheating the system for a $2.25 ride, the N48/N49 are also similar but the N48 runs along a street parallel to Hempstead Turnpike instead for the majority of its course where it merges once again just before Hempstead Terminal and just before the Hicksville LIRR station, the two lines run along Newbridge Road for a while before spllitting.

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There's a lot of routes that share a considerable amount of road time. One of the less obvious ones is the B25 & B26. From Cadman Plz to Fulton St & Classon Av, you can take either one

 

I live in between the B25 and B26...most of the time I take the B26 over the former.

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Are you referring to roads where 2 or more routes run together?

 

Routes that operate together for a significant distance

 

Bronx:

Bx1/Bx2 along Grand Concourse

Bx7/Bx20 along Broadway (and Bx10/Bx20 along Johnson Avenue/Henry Hudson Parkway)

Bx40/Bx42 along Tremont Avenue

Bx15/Bx55 along Third Avenue (and the Bx41/Bx55 along Webster Avenue north of Fordham Road)

Bx28/Bx38 along Gun Hill Road

Bx12/Bx22 along Forham Road between Third Avenue and Bronx Park East

 

Queens:

Q20A/Q20B/Q44 along Main Street

Q19/M60 along Astoria Blvd

Q69/Q100 along 21st Street

Q25/Q34 along Kissena Blvd (along with the Q17 north of the Horace Harding Expressway)

Q1/Q36/Q43 along Hillside Avenue (along with the Q76/Q77 west of Francis Lewis Blvd)

Q4/Q5/Q84/Q85 along Merrick Blvd

Q111/Q113 along Guy R. Brewer Blvd

Q11/Q21/Q53 along Woodhaven Blvd

 

Brooklyn:

B25/B26 along Fulton Street

B20/B83 along Pennsylvania Avenue

Q35/B41 along Flatbush Avenue

 

Manhattan:

M1/M2/M3/M4 along Fifth Avenue

M7/M11 along Amsterdam/Columbus Avenue

M101/M102/M103 along Third/Lexington Avenue

M100/Bx7 along Broadway

M100/M101 along Amsterdam Avenue

M4/M5 along Broadway

Bx15/M60/M100/M101 along 125th Street

M7/M102 along Malcolm X Blvd

M31/M57 along 57th Street

M16/M34 along 34th Street

M14A/M14D along 14th Street

 

Staten Island:

S78/S79 along Hylan Blvd

S61/S62/S66 along Victory Blvd

S52/S78 along Tompkins Avenue

S51/S76 along Bay Street

S44/S59 along Richmond Avenue between Forest Avenue and the SI Mall

S59/S79 along Richmond Avenue between Hylan Blvd and the SI Mall

S78/S59 along Hylan Blvd

 

In addition, almost every express route shares a portion of its route with a local route in the outer boroughs (and all of them share a portion of their route with a Manhattan local route).

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There's a reason I didn't reply to this, w/i minutes of the OP making this thread....

 

I had to read the guy's post like 4 times to get what he's asking...

The thread title, and the subtitle of his post are misleading....

 

He aint askin about which buses share the same physical route with other(s)....

He's askin, what bus route's physical routing is similar to (an)other bus route's physical routing....

 

 

As many buses I've been on, to be honest, what he's asking about, is not something I think about... but that is one hell of an observation... Now that I think about it, some of the turns the Q9 & the Q83 make, are similar....

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You forgot

 

Brooklyn

B36/B74 Surf/Mermaid is which basically a block apart in Coney Island.

 

Express Routes

 

Brooklyn

BM1-5, X27/28 5th Ave between 23rd and 57th.

 

Bronx

All of the routes (except for the BXM2)on 5th/Madison between 86th and 23rd St.

 

The Q32, and Q60 as well.

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The N40/41 do follow each other until they get into Freeport. The N43 actually follows the same path as the N40 as well when it gets onto Main Street from Uniondale Avenue.

 

The N70/71/72 (three of the longest LIB routes) pretty much follow each other until they get to Route 110.

 

The N31/32 are also like that, but there are only about eleven N31 trips a day as opposed to the N32.

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Can this guy come back & clarify what he means... b/c you still have people listing routes that run along the same stretches of roads over other routes....

 

 

So he's saying that the Q9 route is shaped like the Q83 route, just rotated 90 degrees clockwise, correct?

 

from what I gather...

 

not much to do about the "shape" of the routings, as much as it is what the bus(es) do, along its routes; the type of similar turns it makes, etc....

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Can this guy come back & clarify what he means... b/c you still have people listing routes that run along the same stretches of roads over other routes....

 

In my life I rode two different buses to my 2 homes. First I rode the Q9 (As a Green Lines Route) up to Van Wyck Expressway. After I moved I started riding the Q83 (Current route). However I notice these two routes have similar paths.

 

Yes let me re-instate what I meant here- I mean't to talk about routes that have paths similar to other routes besides others that run together at certain points but ones that mostly go at their own paths. I already gave an example with the Q9 & Q83 and they don't run together at all on the road (anymore anyways). I'll find more examples to make this easier to understand but still...look closely at the current example!

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