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Jamaica Buses, Inc., also known as Jamaica Bus Lines [1] or the Jamaica Bus Company, [2] was a bus company in New York City, United States, operating local service in Queens and express service to Manhattan until January 30, 2006, when the MTA Bus Company took over its operations.
Began service on August 2, 1971 as the Q18X, the first NYCT express service between Queens and Manhattan. [101] [102] Service initially ran between Hillside Avenue and 267th Street and 23rd Street and Broadway. Buses would run every 15 minutes between 7 a.m. and 7:45 a.m. from Queens, and every 15 minutes from 24th Street and Madison Avenue in ...
Express bus service began along the corridor on August 2, 1971, as the Q18X, as the first New York City Transit express service between Queens and Manhattan. [39] The route was renumbered the X18 in 1976, before being renumbered to its current designation, the X68, on April 15, 1990.
On April 20, 1975, as a budget cut, the route's two branches, one to Bellerose via Braddock Avenue, and one to Jamaica Avenue in Queens Village via Springfield Boulevard, were consolidated between 1:15 a.m. and 5 a.m., with service looping east on Hillside Avenue, down Braddock Avenue to Jamaica Avenue, on Jamaica Avenue to Springfield ...
1999 (Q44 limited-stop service; Q20A/B College Point-Jamaica service) 2015 (Q44 SBS) Route; Locale: Queens and The Bronx, New York, U.S. Communities served: Queens: Jamaica, Briarwood, Kew Gardens Hills, Queensboro Hill, Flushing, Whitestone, College Point [3] The Bronx (Q44): Throggs Neck, Unionport, Parkchester, Bronx River, West Farms, Bronx ...
[15] [29] [30] Bus service began on April 17, 1937, replacing trolley service along Queens Boulevard. [1] [8] [31] The operations of the Manhattan and Queens Transit Company were acquired by Green Bus Lines in 1943, and the Q60 became part of Green Lines' operations. [32]
A 2015 Nova Bus LFS (8421) on the Cambria Heights-bound Q4 Limited at Merrick Blvd/Sayres Ave in June 2019. In December 2019, the MTA released a draft redesign of the Queens bus network. [50] [51] As part of the redesign, the Q4 would have been replaced by a "subway connector" bus route, the QT40, with a nonstop section on Merrick Boulevard. [52]
[18] [19] [20] In May 1939, Bee-Line relinquished its Queens routes. [21] The bus was assumed by the North Shore Bus Company on May 22, 1939. These routes began operation from the terminal under North Shore Bus Company on June 25, 1939, [22] as part of the company's takeover of nearly all routes in Zone D (Jamaica and Southeast Queens).