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Questions About Q103
Posted by nh153 on Thu Jul 21 12:33:54 2016 edf40wrjww2msgDetailB:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d With all the new apartment buildings going up along the East River in Queens, the MTA last year began running the Q103 seven days a week. It had been one of the least used routes in the city. 30 minute service during weekday rush hours and 60 minute service weekday middays... and that was it. So now it runs every half-hour all weekend, similar to other new routes in neighborhoods that are growing, such as the M12 (11/12 Ave., Manhattan), B32 (East River in Brooklyn) and Bx46 (Hunts Point/Baretto Park, Bronx). But on weekday middays, the Q103 is still running on its old schedule, every 60 minutes. Does that make any sense? If the MTA is trying to develop the service, get people to use it, why isn't the Q103 running every 30 minutes like the M12, B32 and Bx46?
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Re: Questions About Q103
Posted by Bill from Maspeth* on Thu Jul 21 14:37:14 2016, in response to Questions About Q103, posted by nh153 on Thu Jul 21 12:33:54 2016.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailB:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Because they must feel the 60 minute weekday nighttime schedule is sufficient for the ridership who already use the once an hour service. Plus this is an MTA bus route, not NYCT bus route as the 3 examples you have already given. There is a different funding envelope here. The city is involved, rather than MTA. Please don't stone the messenger. The Q67 also runs hourly at night and for that matter all day weekends so the Q103 actually gets treated better.
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Re: Questions About Q103
Posted by Italianstallion* on Thu Jul 21 21:52:53 2016, in response to Re: Questions About Q103, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Jul 21 14:37:14 2016.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailB:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d The OP is talking about weekday mid-day, not nights.
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Re: Questions About Q103
Posted by Bill from Maspeth* on Thu Jul 21 22:05:07 2016, in response to Re: Questions About Q103, posted by Italianstallion on Thu Jul 21 21:52:53 2016.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailB:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d All well and good, but same reasoning.
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Re: Questions About Q103
Posted by GojiMet86* on Thu Jul 21 22:52:02 2016, in response to Re: Questions About Q103, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Jul 21 22:05:07 2016.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailB:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Yep, there isn't a lot of midday ridership. Most of the ridership comes in the rush hours.
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Re: Questions About Q103
Posted by checkmatechamp13* on Sat Jul 23 00:48:36 2016, in response to Questions About Q103, posted by nh153 on Thu Jul 21 12:33:54 2016.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailB:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d According to the MTA Board materials that will be presented this Monday, the Q103 is getting a frequency increase next pick to become every 30 minutes during middays.
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Re: Questions About Q103
Posted by GojiMet86* on Sat Jul 23 14:29:10 2016, in response to Re: Questions About Q103, posted by checkmatechamp13 on Sat Jul 23 00:48:36 2016.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailB:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Speak of the devil.
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Re: Questions About Q103
Posted by Bill from Maspeth* on Sat Jul 23 23:08:53 2016, in response to Questions About Q103, posted by nh153 on Thu Jul 21 12:33:54 2016.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailB:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d As of September 2016, miday, weekday service WILL operate on a 30 minute headway, as per an MTA document I just saw.
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Re: Questions About Q103
Posted by nh153* on Wed Jul 27 10:36:23 2016, in response to Re: Questions About Q103, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sat Jul 23 23:08:53 2016.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailB:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d OK, that sounds logical. After all, I would guess the ridership on a Sunday morning at 10 o'clock (every half hour) should not be more frequent than 10 on a weekday morning (every hour). I also notice the MTA did increase weekday rush hour service. So now its about every 15 minutes during morning rush hours, 20 minutes in afternoon rush hours, up from every 30 minutes a few years ago. The number of new apartment buildings in what used to be a mostly industrial/warehouse area of Queens is amazing.
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