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Re: Q 58 Limited |
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Posted by BusMgr on Fri May 21 04:23:02 2010, in response to Re: Q 58 Limited, posted by R36 #9346 on Thu May 20 22:51:28 2010. Essentially, the Q58LTD would follow Queens Boulevard and the Long Island Expressway, bypassing the Corona Avenue/108th Street section entirely.Long overdue. The only reason for the Q58 using Corona Avenue is that once upon a time a trolley car operated there in the absence of an expressway. While there certainly is demand for a local service along Corona Avenue, the through service into Flushing ought to take the shorter route along Horace Harding. A cost mitigation measure might be to operate all Q58s from Ridgewood to Flushing along Horace Harding, and to reroute Q59s from Grand Av and Queens Blvd via Broadway, Corona Av, 108 St to the 62 Dr stand (now used only by Q38), thereby eliminating Q59 service on Queens Blvd. The Horace Harding route would take 10 minutes instead of the current 19 minutes via Corona Av, so that reduces the midday round-trip cycle time from 2:40 to 2:22, and with an 8-minute midday headway save 2 buses. The Q59 route between Broadway & Queens Blvd and Junction & Queens Blvd takes 10 minutes, and a re-routed Q59 to 62 Dr & 108 St would take an additional 9 minutes. The midday round-trip cycle time would increase from 2:40 to 2:58, and with a 20-minute midday headway, this would require 1 more bus. The 20-minute Q59 headway would probably be insufficient for the demand along Corona Av, so there would likely be a need for additional Q59 short-turns operating only between 108 St and Broadway to split the Q59 headway to 10 minutes, and require another 3 or 4 midday buses. |
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