From NY1:At the Corona Avenue and 91st Place bus stop in Elmhurst, commuters contend daily with swarms of students in a scramble to climb aboard a Ridgewood-bound Q58.
"You have to wait like 30 minutes or more. The buses are super full and we get to school late," said one rider.
"Mornings are crazy because all the students need to get on the buses," said another rider.
The overcrowding occurs daily from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m., with students trying to get to school, commuters trying to make it to work and many of the buses too packed for anyone to get anywhere fast.
The MTA says some help is on the way. It plans to start putting empty buses into service at the stop but didn't say when, meaning the morning commute isn't getting any easier for now.
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I used to live along the Q58 route, it by far is one of the worst in the system. Sometimes you would wait 45 minutes for a bus (it's supposed to arrive every 5-10) and then 7 buses would come, and the most crowded one would stop while the empty ones would keep going.
Truly the worst line around.
The Q58 is like the G-train, it doesn't go to Manhattan so no one gives a fuck.
Gee,
Why dont you get in touch with Transportation Alternatives or that Riders Alliance group and see if you can tear them away from issues that just help development into issues that just helps you and me.
If they stonewall helping you (and they will) get your councilman to go after them. If your councilman stonewalls you (and they will) then start to fight against development - ALL development.
Then they will notice you.
I used to get off the R train at Grand Avenue-Newtown and start walking. More than half the time I would make it home to 69th Street in Maspeth before the Q58 made it there. It's a really slow line.
One cannot solve the Q58; the Q58 solves you.
It's been like this for decades. Get on the 58 near the Fresh Pond el station at evening rush hour. It'll take about half and hour to make it to Flushing Avenue. One could crawl faster.
how about someone using their private van/vans to replace then buses. NYC Govt. has been shut down for years.
Why can't the kids walk? Too obese?
Walking kids? Pulease!
Why is it so bad?
Because queens has always been missing a north-south subway line.
Again another issue with poor zoning allowing a community to pack in as many people as possible without the proper infrastructure.
That's what happens when you bus all the kids from Corona and Ridgewood to schools in Maspeth. Maybe if kids went to school in their own neighborhoods and walked to school, the regular commuters could get to work. Neighborhood schools for Neighborhood Kids. What a concept!
The problem with few of the schools in NYC being top quality is that kids will flock to those where they can get an education - even if it means going from Rockaway to the Bronx every day on buses, trains, etc.
If all neighborhood schools were top notch, there'd be more kids walking.
instead, everyone, even school kids, have to fight over the table scraps.
YES we can!
Home schooling! There ya have it!!!
How about some birth control! Or abortion - it is still legal!
You frequently see really young latinas dragging 4 or 5 kids behind them in these vibrant and diverse neighborhoods!
Too many anchor babies! Why do NYers have to support all these unnecessary kids?
I know - there's no politically correct answer.
Run a light rail thru FLushing Meadow Park!
1. Get rid of illegal aliens.
2. Put an end to overdevelopment.
Problem solved.
Riders Alliance is doing some great stuff across the city. Go to a meeting, get involved, and have your voice heard.
http://www.ridersny.org/corona/
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