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Re: History of the Q19A/Q69 and the Q101R/Q100 |
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Posted by nh153 on Mon Mar 12 14:20:53 2018, in response to Re: History of the Q19A/Q69 and the Q101R/Q100, posted by BusMgr on Sun Mar 11 15:39:23 2018. You are right Bus Mgr. I looked more closely at the June 1996 bus map and I made a mistake.I now see very faintly a purple line leaving Queensboro Plaza, going up 21st Street, then turning eastward onto Astoria Blvd. and joining the regular route of the Q101 at Steinway Street, traveling north to Rikers Island. That purple line is not labeled Q101R, not Q101. There's no label on it at all. But since it joins the Q101 at Steinway Street and follows it north to Rikers Island, I guess that's what would be called Q101R. I hadn't known that the Q101R followed that route at one time. I always remember it going to the end of 21st Street, then making a right in front of the Con Ed plant onto 20th Avenue, and getting to Rikers Island that way, the way the Q100 does today. I wonder why it went onto crowded Astoria Blvd.? Today's route is better if the idea is to get people from the subway to the prison as quickly as possible. Above Edwards! mentions the Q101R also stopping at the Queensbridge subway station. Once that station was opened, the Q101R stopped there in addition to its three other stops. But which came first, the Q101R or the opening of that station? So yes, the Q101R or as it may have first been called, The Limited Stop Q101 to Rikers, was running in 1998, even though it is not mentioned on Queens bus maps till later. |
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