Woodhaven and Cross Bay Boulevards buses
q11, q21
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Livery | Q52/Q53 SBS: Q41 109th Avenue/Cross Bay Boulevard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Operates | 24 hours (Q11, Q53 SBS)[note 1][4][5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Annual patronage | Q11: 844,198 (2022)[6] Q21: 551,383 (2022)[6] Q52 and Q53: 4,377,597 (2022)[6] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Q11, Q21, Q52, and Q53
The Q11 and Q21 were formerly privately operated by Green Bus Lines, and the Q53 was formerly operated by Triboro Coach, under subsidized franchises with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT). The Q11 and Q21 started service along the corridor in 1918 and 1923, respectively. These routes came under the control of Green Bus Lines in the 1930s when the borough's bus system was divided into four lettered "zones", with "Zone C" including Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, Ozone Park, Howard Beach, and the Rockaways operated by Green Lines. An additional route along the corridor, the Q53, was added in 1950, to replace the Long Island Rail Road's Rockaway Beach Branch service to the Rockaways, which was shut down due to a trestle fire. This service was operated by Triboro Coach.
In 2006, all three routes had their operations taken over by the
Since 2008, the Woodhaven-Cross Bay corridor has undergone studies for Select Bus Service (SBS) implementation, which has converted the Q52 and Q53 into bus rapid transit routes. However, the project was delayed by controversy over proposed changes to the corridor, including left-turn bans and the proposed installation of bus lanes in the corridor's median. The first phase of the project began service on November 12, 2017.
Route description
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 Q11 and Q21 provide local service, while the Q52 and Q53 provide limited-stop service and extend into the Rockaways, an isolated peninsula in the south-west of Long Island which is popular as a summer retreat.[7]: 45-52 (PDF p.47-54) [4]: 12 [5]: 23 [8] The Q11 and Q21 originally corresponded to the northern (Woodhaven) and southern (Cross Bay) portions of the Boulevard respectively, while the Q53 originally made no stops along the corridor.[9][10]: 24 [11] The corridor parallels the former Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, whose northern half remains inactive and whose southern half was reactivated for rapid transit service as the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway.[12] Service on the line to the Rockaways across Jamaica Bay was halted due to the 1950 fire on the Jamaica Bay trestle, and the LIRR sold the line to New York City due to its bankruptcy. The LIRR maintained service on the northern half of the line until 1962 while the NYCTA began operating subway service on the southern half in 1956.[13][14][15]
Except for the Q53, all buses along the corridor end northbound service at Queens and
Q11
The Q11 begins at Queens Boulevard, and runs down the entire length of Woodhaven Boulevard and a short portion of Cross Bay Boulevard to Pitkin Avenue. The route then turns east along Pitkin, then south along several local streets through the eastern portion of
The original Q11 route served both Old Howard Beach and Hamilton Beach as a single branch. After running to 165th Avenue in Old Howard Beach, it crossed a bridge over Hawtree Creek, which has since been removed, then ran north in Hamilton Beach to 102nd Street and Russell Street.[23][24][25]: 170, 502
Q21
The Q21 begins at Queens Boulevard, and provides local service along the entire length of Woodhaven and Cross Bay Boulevards in "mainland" Queens. Between
The Q21 previously had an additional branch called the Q21A, which provided service between Brooklyn and the Rockaways. This route began at the
A second branch, the Q21B, ran from New Lots Avenue non-stop to
Q52 SBS
The Q21 Limited service was split off into a separate route, the Q52, in July 2012.
This route, along with the Q53, was converted to a Select Bus Service route on November 12, 2017. The route makes fewer stops than the limited-stop service, uses articulated buses, and travels on the corridor's bus lanes for a large section of its route, speeding travel times. As part of the conversion, it has been proposed to extend the Q52 east to Far Rockaway, along a similar route to the former Q21A.[3]: 8 [41]: 3
Q53 SBS
The Q53 SBS is the longest of the four routes, running a distance of 14 miles (23 km).
Created as a replacement for Rockaway Beach Branch service in the 1950s,
The Q53, originally being operated by Triboro Coach operated from the
Select Bus Service stops
Station Street traveled |
Direction | Connections |
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Q53 only | ||
61st Street Roosevelt Avenue |
Northbound Terminus; Southbound Station |
61st Street–Woodside
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75th Street Broadway |
Bidirectional | MTA Bus: Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street
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78th Street Broadway |
Southbound | |
Baxter Avenue Broadway |
Northbound | |
Whitney Avenue Broadway |
Bidirectional | NYC Subway: Elmhurst Avenue
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Justice Avenue Broadway |
Northbound | NYC Bus: Grand Avenue–Newtown
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Queens Boulevard Broadway |
Southbound | |
Q52 and Q53 | ||
Woodhaven Boulevard / Queens Center Queens Boulevard |
Q52 Northbound Terminus; Q53 Northbound | NYCT Bus: Q59, Woodhaven Boulevard
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Woodhaven Boulevard Hoffman Drive |
Q52 Southbound Station; Q53 Southbound | |
Penelope Avenue Woodhaven Boulevard |
Southbound | MTA Bus: Q11, Q21, Q38, QM15
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63rd Drive Woodhaven Boulevard |
Northbound | |
Metropolitan Avenue Woodhaven Boulevard |
Bidirectional | MTA Bus: Q11, Q21, Q54
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Myrtle Avenue Woodhaven Boulevard |
MTA Bus: Q11, Q21, BM5, QM15 NYC Bus: Q55 | |
Jamaica Avenue Woodhaven Boulevard |
MTA Bus: Q11, Q21, QM15 NYC Bus: Woodhaven Boulevard
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91st Avenue Woodhaven Boulevard |
MTA Bus: Q11, Q21 NYC Bus: Q24 (at Atlantic Avenue)
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101st Avenue Woodhaven Boulevard |
MTA Bus: Q8 , Q11, Q21, QM15
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Rockaway Boulevard Woodhaven Boulevard |
Southbound | MTA Bus: Rockaway Boulevard
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Liberty Avenue Cross Bay Boulevard |
Northbound | |
Pitkin Avenue Cross Bay Boulevard |
Bidirectional | MTA Bus: Q11, Q21, Q41, BM5, QM15 |
157th Avenue Cross Bay Boulevard |
MTA Bus: Q21, Q41, QM17
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163rd Avenue Cross Bay Boulevard |
MTA Bus: Q21, Q41, QM16, QM17 (southbound only) | |
Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge | ||
Broad Channel | ||
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Cross Bay Boulevard |
Bidirectional | |
Noel Road Cross Bay Boulevard |
MTA Bus: QM16, QM17 NYC Subway: Broad Channel
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East 16th Road Cross Bay Boulevard |
Northbound | |
West 17th Road Cross Bay Boulevard |
Southbound | |
Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge | ||
Rockaway Peninsula | ||
Q52 only | ||
Beach 92nd Street Rockaway Beach Boulevard |
Southbound | MTA Bus: Beach 90th Street
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Beach 91st Street Rockaway Beach Boulevard |
Northbound | |
Beach 84th Street Rockaway Beach Boulevard |
Bidirectional | MTA Bus: Q22, QM17 |
Beach 74th Street Rockaway Beach Boulevard |
Southbound | MTA Bus: Q22, QM17 |
Beach 73rd Street Rockaway Beach Boulevard |
Northbound | |
Beach 67th Street Rockaway Beach Boulevard |
Bidirectional | NYC Subway: Beach 67th Street
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Beach 59th Street Arverne Boulevard |
Southbound | NYC Subway: Beach 60th Street
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Rockaway Beach Boulevard Beach 59th Street |
Northbound | |
Beach Channel Drive Beach 54th Street |
Southbound Terminus | MTA Bus: Q22, QM17 |
Beach 54th Street Beach Channel Drive |
Northbound Station | |
Q53 only | ||
Beach 96th Street Rockaway Beach Boulevard |
Bidirectional | MTA Bus: Q22, QM16 NYC Subway: Beach 98th Street
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Beach 102nd Street Rockaway Beach Boulevard |
Bidirectional | MTA Bus: Q22, QM16 |
Beach 108th Street Rockaway Beach Boulevard |
Bidirectional | MTA Bus: Q22, QM16 |
Rockaway Beach Boulevard Beach 116th Street |
Southbound Terminus; Northbound Station | MTA Bus: Q22, Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street
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Express bus service
In addition to local and limited-stop service, four bus routes (
: 36–37Other bus routes
The
History
Early years: Q11 and Q21 routes
The Q11 began service in 1918 under Liberty Bus Transportation, also known as New York City Department of Plant & Structures Route 64, between Woodhaven and Howard/Hamilton Beach.[54][55]
The Q21 began service in 1923. In 1926, it became a route of the Queens Auto Traction Corporation, running between
The Q11 began operations under Green Lines on November 15, 1936.
Addition of Q53, extension of Q21, and MTA Bus takeover
On May 8, 1950, a major fire occurred on the wooden trestle of the LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch over Jamaica Bay, ending direct rail service to the Rockaway peninsula.[12][67][68]: 239–240 On June 25, Triboro Coach, which was owned by Green Lines' shareholders,[69] began operating replacement bus service from the Woodside LIRR station to Rockaway Park on a temporary grant from the city.[42][43][70][71] The Q53 officially began service on June 28, 1956,[72] two days after IND Rockaway Line service commenced on the parallel Rockaway Beach Branch.[73][74][75][76] It later gained popularity as a route from mainland Queens to Rockaway Beach and Rockaways' Playland during summer months,[46][48] as did the Q21 and Q21A.[77]
On January 9, 2006, the
Split of Q21 and Q52
On January 8, 2012, the Q21 was rerouted from Rockaway Park to
For a short period of time after Hurricane Sandy in late 2012 and 2013, additional service was provided on the Q52 route. Several 60-foot (18 m) articulated buses, utilized on the Q10, were temporarily transferred for use on the Q52 route.[82] Some articulated buses were still running on the Q52 as of 2014[update].[83] In addition, the Q11, Q21, and Q52 fleet was transferred to JFK Depot after Far Rockaway Depot was damaged, but the route used buses with the JFK Depot sticker. On September 8, 2013, overnight service was added to the Q53 due to increasing ridership on the route.[49][84] On April 9, 2017, the Q52 was extended from Beach 69th Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard to Beach 54th Street and Beach Channel Drive in Edgemere to better serve housing in both Arverne and Edgemere.[2][40]
Select Bus Service
Planning
In 2004, the Woodhaven-Cross Bay corridor was one of twelve Queens bus corridors studied under the city's bus rapid transit (BRT) study, which was meant to determine the feasibility of having dedicated lanes and rebuilt stops to speed up service on BRT corridors.[53]: 36–37 Beginning on January 4, 2008, the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) conducted an 18-month study on Woodhaven Boulevard as part of the city's Congested Corridors Project to improve congested and dangerous roadways. One of the short-term recommendations of the study was to implement bus rapid transit along the corridor.[1][85]: 35 [86] In June 2010, the Woodhaven-Cross Bay corridor was added to the list of potential corridors for Phase II of Select Bus Service (SBS), the MTA's brand of BRT service.[87][88][89]: 4 [90]: 28–29 (PDF p.36–37)
Construction
Preliminary designs began in 2013[91] and were released in March 2014.[92] The first dedicated MTA bus lanes were installed in August 2015, on the north end of Woodhaven Boulevard between Dry Harbor Road and Metropolitan Avenue.[1]: 4 At this time, the Q52 and Q53 SBS routes were scheduled to begin service in fall 2017, with the remaining bus lanes and street improvements to be implemented in stages afterwards.[1]: 14 In September 2017, the NYCDOT announced that the segment of Woodhaven Boulevard between Union Turnpike and 81st Road would also get dedicated bus lanes. As part of that segment's bus lane implementation, the NYCDOT would remove the medians separating service-road and main-road traffic in each direction, as well as expand the median separating the two directions of traffic.[93]
Implementation
SBS was implemented on the corridor on November 12, 2017.[94] In the Rockaways and in Broad Channel, due to less dense land uses, and due to lower utilization of stops, several existing Q52 and Q53 stops were consolidated or discontinued. Q22 local service continued to serve the stops in the Rockaways, while the low volume stops at Cross Bay Boulevard and 5th Road were discontinued. A new stop at Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 84th Street replaced stops at Beach 81st Street and Beach 86th Street on the Q52. In Broad Channel two stops were relocated: the northbound stop at Cross Bay Boulevard and East 9th Road was moved north to Noel Road to be symmetrical with the southbound stop, and the southbound stop at West 15th Road was moved south to West 17th Road to be symmetrical with the northbound stop, and to be adjacent to a crosswalk. Stops on Woodhaven Boulevard were modified as well: the stop at Atlantic Avenue was moved north to 91st Avenue, allowing Q52 and Q53 service to travel on the overpass over Atlantic Avenue using the bus lane, as opposed to using the slow service road. Two SBS stops were added–at 101st Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard, and at Pitkin Avenue and Cross Bay Boulevard–to provide transfers to the Q8 and Q11, respectively. Stations on Woodhaven Boulevard at Jamaica Avenue, 91st Avenue and 101st Avenue, and at Cross Bay Boulevard at Liberty Avenue (northbound) and Rockaway Boulevard (southbound) are new stations that were built in the median by the NYCDOT.[95]
Q11 and Q21 service on Woodhaven Boulevard were modified in conjunction with the implementation of SBS. The bus stops at 63rd Avenue and 64th Road in both directions, and the northbound stop at 67th Drive were discontinued in order to even out the spacing of bus stops. The southbound stop at 68th Avenue was moved to Yellowstone Boulevard to be near a crosswalk, the Park Lane South stops was moved to 85th Road, and the southbound Doxey Place stop was moved to Gold Road.[95]
Opposition
The implementation of SBS on the Woodhaven/Cross Bay corridor has been supported by transit advocates and bus riders, particularly those in the Rockaways.[96][97] However, many residents of the communities north of the Rockaways, particularly car users and business owners, have opposed the Select Bus Service project. Much of the opposition has been due to the implementation of bus lanes down the center of the boulevard, which could cause increased traffic congestion.[96][97] The plan in April 2015 would have prohibited left-turns at twelve intersections.[98]: 12
In January 2016, City Council Member Eric Ulrich, a Republican representing Ozone Park, came out against the plan as among other things, it prohibited left turns at Jamaica Avenue. He had been in favor of bus rapid transit along Woodhaven Boulevard, as he stated in a 2014 opinion editorial. The plan was modified in May 2016 in an effort to accommodate Ulrich's objections. It included restrictions on left-turns at only five intersections, including none at Jamaica Avenue.[96][98]: 12 The left-turn restrictions were put into the plan to speed up travel times by eliminating the signal time allocated to split phasing—a traffic-signal setup where traffic in one direction has a green light, while the other directions of traffic have a red light, in order to allow drivers at the green light to turn left without conflicts from oncoming traffic. The restrictions also reduce conflicts between turning vehicles and pedestrians. Instead of banning left turns at Jamaica Avenue, the left turn bays would be re-engineered around the BMT Jamaica Line subway columns to decrease blind spots and collisions.[99] Local community members were also opposed to the plan due to the reduction of traffic lanes along the boulevard's service roads from two lanes to a single lane.[100]
Bus redesign
In December 2019, the MTA released a draft redesign of the Queens bus network.[101][102] As part of the redesign, the Woodhaven and Cross Bay Boulevards corridor would have contained a "high-density" route, the QT52 (following the Q52 SBS), with the Q53 being discontinued. The Q11 and Q21 would have been rearranged into two "neighborhood" routes, but with a different arrangement. The QT83 would have made local stops on Woodhaven and Cross Bay Boulevards, while the QT88A/B would have combined the branches of the Q11 and Q21.[103] The redesign was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City in 2020,[104] and the original draft plan was dropped due to negative feedback.[105]
A revised plan was released in March 2022.[106] As part of the new plan, the Q11 would be shortened, running from Howard Beach/Hamilton Beach to the Rockaway Boulevard station, would not serve the Woodhaven/Cross Bay corridor at all and have overnight service eliminated. The Q21 would be extended north in Elmhurst to the 82nd Street–Jackson Heights station, replacing the Q29 bus, which would be discontinued; in Howard Beach, the Q21 would run along 84th Street instead of Cross Bay Boulevard. The Q21 would also gain overnight service. The Q52 SBS and Q53 SBS would both be preserved, but both would terminate at Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street instead (representing an extension of the Q52 SBS and a truncation of the Q53 SBS), have a stop added at Eliot Avenue (Southbound Q53 SBS would skip this stop) and some of their bus stops would be moved to be realigned closer to major cross streets.[107]
A final bus-redesign plan was released in December 2023.[108][109] The final plan called for the Q21 to be eliminated; the Q11 would be rerouted in Lindenwood to serve several former Q21 stops, and frequencies on the Q11 would be increased to match the former combined frequency of the Q11 and the Q21. The Q52 and Q53 would not be modified at all.[110]
In popular culture
The 1977 song "Rockaway Beach" by Forest Hills-based band the Ramones references the bus ride to the Rockaways on the Q53. It includes the lines:
Bus ride is too slow
they blast out the disco on the radio[92]
Notes
- ^ Q21 and Q52 operate all times except late nights
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