From the Daily News:The city Transportation Department has identified 31 potential BRT corridors, focusing largely on areas underserved by mass transit or targeted for growth.
Nine of those are in Queens, including southeastern Queens; Utopia/Fresh Meadows; Middle Village; the Long Island Expressway; the Long Island City waterfront and the Queens-Manhattan connections, where subways are jam-packed.
Joe Barr, director of transit development for the DOT, said eight to 12 corridors across the city will be selected this summer for further study. Projects that are ultimately selected will be built over the next decade.
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Sounds good,but with the amount of traffic in this city,i can't see it thriving.A special bus lane means no parking from 7am-7pm,that could kill some businesses.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but traffic is already killing businesses, and it's killing us! So, bring on the BRT. Hopefully it won't get killed by narrow interests in Queens like it did last time.
no Maspeth? also i guess they wont be extending the subways anytime this half century
Think back to the slow progress of subway line development. As any particular line was extended, population increases followed, and so did high-rise development along the route. Expect the same for the BRT.
In the 1970s, San Jose in California, converted many two-way streets to one way.
Then, on all one-way streets, busses were the only vehicles that operated in the other direction, in the right-hand lane.
Nobody wanted to be hit by a bus head on, so drivers kept out of the bus lane.
Everybody made much better travel time.
There is one rapid bus line already (the QM24) and it is anything but rapid. The problem is the fact that our respective neighborhoods (Ridge, Glen, Masp, Mid Vil) are not laid out in a grid pattern and needless to say the cemetarie shtat surround us equally deadlock us.
The point is that no matter how hard they try (and they definitely should)the "rapid busses" will never be rapid unless they make one pickup stop and one drop off stop and I imagine that tthere is no way that could be cose effective.
Oops...notice how they slipped in that LONG ISLAND CITY WATERFRONT route?
I guess those Queens West, etc. hipsters are tired of being so isolated.
Gee...and the sales agents promised them only 20 minute access to Manhattan. (I think they lied a little)!
Tsk, tsk, tsk...it seems those New York Waterways ferry boats DON'T RUN IN HARSH WINTER WEATHER!
LOL! That's why we are getting the buses and you are gettting nothing. Money talk BS walks. LOL!
So Fresh Meadows and Middle Village are "upscale" like LIC and also deserve this bus service?
LOL indeed!
LIC has multiple train lines and doesn't need BRT.
And if the service were tied to the income of the area, southeastern Queens and the Bronx wouldn't have gotten it.
i really hope we get this soon.
You can be in Manhattan in 5 minutes from LIC. What are you talking about?
that's all well and good for LIC...
Still tying to bullshit your way out of a lousy investment...eh you Queens West cliff dweller?
Face it...you couldn't afford Manhattan proper so you settled for an "Almost Manhattan Tower" with its discount cache!
oh c'mon,subways are not that bad.
#7 runs well,"IND" too--what more do they want ?
put more service to the steinway st run where the elderly depend on it for medical appointments and shopping-,maspeth too ---oooops--waterfront means yuppies and of course they must be served-
fresh meadows/uniondale already have their xpress runs/service in place for decades and the regular "run" is STILL more frequent than steinway st.
but like another posted: $$s talks and bs walks.
yea i was implying maspeth but this rhodes scholar keeps shouting "Queens West Cliff Dweller," go figure.
WHAT ABOUT NEIGHBORHOODS WITH NO TRAIN/SUBWAY SERVICE ???
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