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The Q11, Q21, Q52, and Q53 bus routes constitute a public transit corridor running along Woodhaven and Cross Bay Boulevards in Queens, New York City.The corridor extends primarily along the length of the two boulevards through "mainland" Queens, a distance of 6 miles (9.7 km) [5]: 19 between Elmhurst and the Jamaica Bay shore in Howard Beach.
A 2022 XD40 (7864) on the Jamaica-bound Q54 at Metropolitan/72nd Avenues in Forest Hills A 2013 C40LF (651) on the Q66 at an old-style bus stop with the timetable box in Woodside, Queens The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) operates a number of bus routes in Queens , New York , United States , under two different public brands.
Most routes west of Port Jefferson and Patchogue are scheduled with 30 minute headways (60 minutes on routes 3, 10 and 15) during weekdays until at least 6:00 p.m. On all routes from Port Jefferson and Patchogue and to the east, including the north-south routes between those two terminals, there are 60-minute headways (except for 30-minute headways on routes 51 and 66).
[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 ...
Woodhaven Boulevard and Cross Bay Boulevard (formerly Jamaica Bay Boulevard [1]) are two parts of a major boulevard in the New York City borough of Queens. Woodhaven Boulevard runs roughly north–south in the central portion of Queens. South of Liberty Avenue, it is known as Cross Bay Boulevard, which is the main north–south road in Howard ...
The station and the nearby Queens Center Mall are served by nine local MTA Regional Bus Operations routes and two express bus routes. Three of the four Woodhaven Boulevard bus lines (Q11, Q21, Q52 SBS) terminate at the station, with the Q53 SBS bus continuing westward towards the Woodside – 61st Street Station.
In December 2019, the MTA released a draft redesign of the Queens bus network redesign with 77 routes. [127] [128] The routes were given a "QMT" label to avoid confusion with existing routes. The "QMT" prefix was tentative; in the final plan, all bus routes would have been labeled with "QM", similar to the existing routes.
The slowest bus routes are typically crosstown bus routes in Manhattan, with 14 of the slowest bus routes in 2017 being crosstown bus routes. [ 175 ] : 28 In 2017, the slowest bus route was the M42 crosstown bus on 42nd Street, which had an average speed of 3.9 miles per hour (6.3 km/h), approximately a walking pace.