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Posted by BusMgr on Sat May 22 03:21:26 2010, in response to Re: Q 58 Limited, posted by trainsarefun on Fri May 21 20:28:11 2010. The interested can also see how MTA Bus will rename routes on the current QM1/A and QM24.There's a bit of convoluted reasoning here concerning the necessity of providing a distinct route number for branches to lower Manhattan, but no necessity of distinct route numbers for branches within midtown Manhattan (essentially, the reasoning is that service to lower Manhattan goes to a separate geographic area, whereas service to different avenues in midtown Manhattan is all part of the same geographic area). Following through on that reasoning, (1) the BxM1 and the BxM2 ought to be combined into a single route number, and (2) the BM1, BM2, BM3, and BM4 ought to have distinct route numbers for service to lower Manhattan only and to midtown Manhattan only. Interestingly, MTA Bus Company is leaving the availability open for route QM9 in the event that direct service between North Shore Towers and lower Manhattan is restored. Another interesting aspect of the renumbering is the re-use of route number QM25. This route number was first assigned to Bus Systems, Inc. (part of the Caravan Transportation system), and if I recall correctly this was the Fresh Meadows to lower Manhattan service. Bus Systems also operated routes QM26, QM27, and QM28 (and, also if I recall correctly, were the Glen Oaks to lower Manhattan, North Shore Towers to lower Manhattan, and Deepdale-Douglaston to midtown Manhattan routes, respectively). I'm not sure why MTA Bus Company would have chosen new re-numberings for the QM1 and QM1A routes when there were already previously-used re-numberings . . . their "report" does not even mention the route numbers! Perhaps another sign of the loss of institutional memory when MTA took over the service. Finally, I wonder how much of the cited confusion exists among the passengers of the service vis-à-vis the confusion that exists in the minds of the new planners that are doing the re-numberings? The passengers have largely understood the system ever since these routes started some 40 years ago . . . the MTA planners have only been doing this for the few years since they took over (these are probably the same planners that got confused over NYCT's X9-X11-X13 routes in Staten Island and created the X1-X2-X3-X4-X5-X6-X7-X8-X9 system!). |
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