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Posted by Howard Fein on Mon Jul 21 09:16:10 2008, in response to Re: Bx9 Question, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Jul 21 01:19:18 2008. For the sixty years prior to 1999, the Q44 traveled on 150 Street between Hillside and the GCP service road. The Bronx-bound 44 would turn right off Sutphin onto Hillside, left on 150, right on the eastbound service road, a U-turn on the Parsons Boulevard overpass, and then the westbound service road to Main Street where it would turn right towards Flushing. Jamaica-bound routing was much simpler: left off Main on eastbound service road, right on 150.All this ended in Spring 1999 with the advent of the Q20A/B, which served as a local to the newly Limited Q44 from Whitestone to Jamaica. All three routes were rerouted off the service road and 150 Street to the southernmost half-mile of Main Street, Queens Boulevard and Hillside Avenue west of Sutphin. It was considered a less circutious routing and provided new service to Archbishop Molloy HS, Van Wyck/Briarwood station and the Briarwood shopping district. Assemblywoman Nettie Mayerson was campaigning for this change for decades. Considering the very steep uphill on 150 north from Hillside and the close parallel to Parsons Boulevard (Q25,34), the rerouting made some sense. But for some reason, the NO PARKING ANYTIME regulation that existed on both sides of narrow, winding 150 STILL exist nine years after the removal of the Q44! |
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