Commutes for 42,000 bus riders would speed up with the rolling out of Select Bus Service along the Q44 route, which links Jamaica, Flushing and the Bronx.
The service would include improved bus stations, seats and real-time information on arrivals, as well as fare collection before boarding, according to the Department of Transportation.
It would also add bus lanes in downtown Jamaica and Flushing. The lanes, however, would not be implemented in the neighborhoods along the rest of the Select Bus Service route after locals opposed them, officials said.
The bus lanes are proposed for portions of the 14-mile Q44 bus route which serves about 42,000 riders on a daily basis. The new lanes will be installed on Main Street between Northern Boulevard and Reeves Avenue in Flushing and on Sutphin Boulevard, Archer Avenue and Hillside Avenue in downtown Jamaica, according to the DOT.
The bus lane design and hours are still being developed, the agency said.
In some of those areas, parking in the bus lanes would be allowed during off-peak hours, the agency said.
11 comments:
Another attack on real families in NYC. The only people who will ever ride this are the hipsters and transplants. Real citizens should not pay second fiddle to hipsters. We need theses lanes to drive on.
You need wide streets and no bottlenecks,or it just doesn't work.
Will the Q44 still have to obey the 25mph speed limit?
i can understand Jamaica, but bus lanes close to residential neighborhoods is a parking nightmare
hipsters and transplants ride this bus? LOL
my friend, I don't think you've ever rode the Q44 with a comment like that....
jump on the Q44 during rush hour from the Bronx into Queens and let me know what you see....
I've been reading stories for the past 25 years on how the MTA plans to speed up bus service.
It's a joke.
It's not going to happen.
Friendly reminder that the MTA is a government run operation. The only promise the MTA consistently delivers on is fare hikes.
Take a close look at the picture accompanying the article.
Notice anything that would affect the speed and flow of the traffic?
Yeah, of course. Buses and cars that block the box. Traffic comes to a halt in all directions when drivers ignore cross street traffic. Also, double length buses and large trucks do not help, and buses should pull all the way into their stops and not block a lane of traffic by being lazy. And cops should be stationed on the street ticketing those vehicles that park in bus stops and block the box.
This would not only make traffic move smoothly it would also raise revenue for the city.
Why not extend it to Fordham Station after the Bronx Zoo, since most drivers rest there anyway? Then it can be the LIRR-to-Metro North connector.
It can run more smoothly, because of its size, if it ran on the Whitestone Expressway Service Road instead of Union and Parsons, and let the Q20 handle locals. Schoolkids got scissored by two of these opposing buses because the buses can't stop quickly enough. This bus replaced the Whitestone branch of the LIRR.
Actually, you can set your watch by the Q44, despite the long route. The Q15 and Q76 are always off schedule, more likely to arrive at the midpoint between two scheduled times. They think Whitestone is all hicks and we don't matter. Now, Bronx and Jamaica, they matter.
This bus lane is instructive: you can see which neighborhoods are paying attention by which neighborhoods aren't loosing a lane to this.
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