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Posted by QM18Express on Tue Jul 8 12:48:36 2008, in response to Re: Staten Islanders unsatisfied with MTA bus service, posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Tue Jul 8 07:12:52 2008. Thats interesting.I know this is not SI I am saying here however I want to say it. I tend to find Express Buses to be faster depending on where I am going. At certain times of the day and a lot of times on the weekend its faster for me to go to 34th St by Express Bus then the subway. The break even point would be like around 42 St. I would not save much time if I am going north of 42nd. Most of the time heading back to Queens it can be faster with the Express Bus regardless where you get on depending on how you time it. Also from where I am at to Lower Manhattan it's faster to take the QM1 Downtown then to take a local bus and 2 trains. One of the reasons why the QM1 Downtown is very well used is b/c it's the fastest way to go Downtown from Fresh Meadows and along the Union Turnpike corridor. Another reason is because there's no direct subway line from Queens Blvd that go's downtown and also because taking a bus to the J line tends to take a long time. Like who wants to take a Q30 from Douglaston all the way to Jamaica and transfer to the J or Z to go downtown while they can get there in lesser time by transferring over to the QM1 Downtown at Union Turnpike (Q30 or QM1A). My main gripe about the QM1 Downtown is that about 20-30% of the riders drive over to the QM1 Downtown (with most of the people driving to fresh meadows from points east). I don't understand why can't there be a Park N Ride lot in Fresh Meadows. The only place in Fresh Meadows thats big enough to make it into a like a 200-300 car lot is Cunningham Park however I would see a lot of NIMBY's against it (and some of those NIMBY's are the ones that would drive to Fresh Meadows for the QM1 Downtown). MTA can use some of the current parking spots at the 2 shopping centers right at the 1st stop of the QM1 Downtown. |
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