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Select Bus Service (SBS; stylized as + select busservice) is a service provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Regional Bus Operations for limited-stop bus routes with some bus rapid transit features in New York City. The first SBS route was implemented in 2008 to improve speed and reliability on long, busy corridors.
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 loop in Forest Hills was reversed. The new route runs southwest on Union Turnpike, north on Woodhaven Boulevard, and east on Metropolitan Avenue.
Looking south down Woodhaven Boulevard near Jamaica Avenue, with a 2017 XD60 on the Q52 SBS (left), and new bus lanes and median bus stops used for Select Bus Service The Q11, Q21, Q52, and Q53 all share a route along most of Woodhaven and Cross Bay Boulevards, between Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst and Pitkin Avenue in Ozone Park .
The station serves the adjacent Queens Center Mall, as well as numerous bus lines. Woodhaven Boulevard was opened on December 31, 1936, as Woodhaven Boulevard–Slattery Plaza. At the time, the station was part of the Independent Subway System. The plaza was demolished in the 1950s, but the name tablets displaying the station's original name ...
Q53 Select Bus Service: Elmhurst Avenue: local E F M R December 31, 1936 [63] Q53 Select Bus Service: Jackson Heights: Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue: all E F <F> M R August 19, 1933 [50] IRT Flushing Line (7 ) at 74th Street–Broadway Q47 bus to LaGuardia Airport (Marine Air Terminal only) Q53 Select Bus Service
Woodhaven Boulevard: M Q52/Q53 Select Bus Service: Grand Avenue–Newtown: M Q53 Select Bus Service: Elmhurst Avenue: M Q53 Select Bus Service: Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue: 7 (IRT Flushing Line) E F <F> M Q47 bus to LaGuardia Airport Marine Air Terminal Q53 Select Bus Service Q70 Select Bus Service to LaGuardia Airport: 65th Street: M ...
Overnight QM6 service began on May 6, 2020 due to the subway shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, making QM18 stops along Queens Boulevard as well as a pick-up at Woodhaven Boulevard & Hoffman Drive, and a drop-off at Queens Boulevard & Woodhaven Boulevard. Overnight service discontinued on June 28, 2020 due to low ridership. QM7 QM8
However, Select Bus Service routes only serve 12% of all bus riders as of 2016, and the average bus route is 10% percent slower than it was in the mid-1990s. [ 182 ] A 2015 study found that 35 MTA routes with significant ridership figures had average speeds of less than 15 miles per hour (24 km/h), and that the M66 crosstown bus had an average ...