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Many of these routes used to be part of Triboro Coach. Several had been Queens Surface Corporation routes that operate in western Queens, which were closer to the LaGuardia Depot than their former Queens Surface Depot in College Point. Local Routes: Q18, Q29, Q33, Q39, Q47, Q49, Q67, Q69, Q72, Q100, Q101, Q102, Q103, Q104 [240] [241]
[14] [15] [16] Affiliated Bus operated the route on several temporary permits, [1] [2] [17] before being granted a five-year contract from the city in November 1934. [18] The route was acquired in 1936 by Triboro Coach Corporation, as part of the company's takeover of all routes within "Zone A" of Queens' four-zone bus system, covering greater ...
[1] [22] By 1940, the Q65 route ran between College Point and Jamaica. That year, the company applied for an extension of the route north along 122nd Street (College Point Boulevard), which was never implemented. [24] [28] [29] Queens-Nassau would become the Queens Transit Corporation in 1957. [30]
The Q20B turns west farther north at 14th Avenue, running through a much more residential area. Both the 20th and 14th Avenue routes were part of the original Q20, which only ran between College Point and Downtown Flushing. Both routes provide local service, but the Q20A runs at all times, while the Q20B operates only on weekdays. [7] [11]
The original Q34 route was the College Point segment of the Q25; it was later rerouted to its current alignment in Whitestone and then extended along the Q25 route. On April 17, 2000, the span of weekday evening service on the route was changed, with bus service ending at 9 p.m. instead of midnight, and Saturday service was eliminated due to ...
Signs along the route showed this proposed extension, as well as bus destination signs. Prior to January 8, 2017, the Q23 was based out of the LaGuardia Depot. It was moved to the College Point Depot in exchange for the Q53 due to plans for the latter to become a Select Bus Service route. On September 23, 2017, the route of the Q23's terminal ...
On May 25, 1933, Queens–Nassau Transit received a one-year franchise for route "Q-34" from Flushing to College Point. [13] The route began service in April 1933. [11] In 1931, the Board of Estimate was deciding which bus route franchises would be given to which operators. Along with thirty other bus routes, the Q25 was tentatively assigned to ...
The current Q58 bus route follows the former trolley route, with some exceptions. The right-of-ways of Lawrence Street and Rodman Street along the route have since been replaced with College Point Boulevard, while the Long Island Expressway was built over the corridor containing Horace Harding Boulevard and Strong's Causeway. Some northbound ...