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The original draft plan was dropped, [135] and a revised plan with 85 routes was released on March 29, 2022. [131] The new plan retains the "QM" prefix and preserves most of the existing routes. [131] Most of the bus routes have relatively minor changes: [136]: 46 The X63, X64, and X68 will be renamed the QM63, QM64, and QM68 respectively.
List of express bus routes in New York City: BM1, BM2, BM3, BM4, BM5, X27, X28, X37, X38; Service operation is generally defined as: Weekday rush hours: 6:30 AM – 9:30 AM and 3:30 PM – 8 PM; Midday service: 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM; Evening service: 8 PM – Midnight; Overnight service: Midnight – 6:30 AM; Many routes do not operate overnights.
A late-1990s renovation saw prefabricated tile panels installed on the trackside wall of the express platform, with a tile band of Concord Violet bordered in black and "CHAMBERS" in white Copperplate lettering on black tiles on each panel, and on the local platform's walls the new tiles were installed in 3-by-2-foot (0.91 by 0.61 m) sections ...
[90] [94] The buses from the depot provide express service between Yonkers or Western Bronx and Manhattan. [41] [89] The city of Yonkers plans to acquire at least a portion of the site from the MTA, as part of the redevelopment of the waterfront area, a former industrial section. [89] [90] [94] [95]
While intended to only last for a year, the plan was so successful that the bus lanes were maintained. Local bus speeds increased from 2.9 miles per hour (4.7 km/h) to 4.8 miles per hour (7.7 km/h), a 65% increase. Express bus speeds increased from 2.9 miles per hour (4.7 km/h) to 5.8 miles per hour (9.3 km/h), a 100% increase.
One of the goals of Mayor John Hylan's Independent Subway System (IND), proposed in the 1920s, was a line to Coney Island, reached by a recapture of the BMT Culver Line. [3] [4] As originally designed, service to and from Manhattan would have been exclusively provided by Culver express trains, while all local service would have fed into the IND Crosstown Line. [5]
The B47 is a surface transit line on Ralph Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City.Once a streetcar line, [5] it is now part of the B47 bus route, operated by the New York City Transit Authority, Prior to 1995, it was the B78 route; the northern part of the route from St. Johns Place to Woodhull Hospital was part of the B40 line.
Express trains had their southern terminus at South Ferry or Atlantic Avenue and had their northern terminus at 242nd Street, Lenox Avenue (145th Street), or West Farms (180th Street). [111] After the Joralemon Street Tunnel opened in 1908, some trains continued to terminate at South Ferry during rush hours , while others went to Brooklyn.