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Posted by BusMgr on Sun Apr 17 17:20:07 2022, in response to Re: Why 2 Terminals for Q1?, posted by Osmosis Jones on Sun Apr 17 13:25:07 2022. Without attempting a comprehensive history, I would note that Hillside Avenue has long been a key path for bus routes east of Jamaica. The first operating authority ever granted by the Board of Estimate, in 1914, was a revocable consent (not a full franchise) to Hillside Transportation Company, Inc., for four routes. One route operated from the Jamaica LIRR station along Jamaica Avenue and Parsons Boulevard to Hillside Avenue, then out Hillside to 197th Street and making a loop to the Hollis LIRR station. Operations lasted only four months, and the consent was revoked in 1915. In the 1920s a franchise was proposed for Equitable Coach Corporation for a route from the Jamaica LIRR station along Stuphin Boulevard to Hillside Avenue, then out Hillside Avenue to Springfield Boulevard, and then to the Queens Village LIRR station. That franchise, of course, was not granted. In 1934 the Board of Estimate adopted a system of bus routes for Queens County, in which the route designation Q1 first appears for a route virtually identical to the above-noted Equitable Coach Hillside Avenue route, as well as the branch along Braddock Avenue to Jamaica Avenue. Eventually that franchise came to North Shore Bus Company. The Q43 was appended to the franchise as a separate route, labeled "Bellaire-City Line," acting as an extension of the Q1. The Q43 began at 212th Street and Jamaica Avenue (turn-around loop: 212th Street, 99th Avenue, 211th Street), up 212th Street to Hillside Avenue, then out Hillside Avenue to the city line. In 1945 the routes were restructured. The Q1 was cut back from the Jamaica LIRR station to the 165th Street bus terminal, and route Q43 extended from 212th Street to Sutphin Boulevard. In effect, the Q43 became the primary Hillside Avenue bus route, operating along its entire length (or at least all east of Sutphin Boulevard) while the Q1 became a supplement thereto along the busiest portion of Hillside Avenue.Springfield Boulevard was never a street with a through bus route, but rather was simply a convenient place at which to end bus routes. The Queens Village LIRR station was a convenient terminal point. The Q27 ended, as noted, on Springfield Boulevard at Horace Harding Expressway. Several other bus routes, including Q1, ended at the Queens Village LIRR station (Braddock Avenue came later to the Q1, but the Queens Village LIRR station terminal stayed on). There was never really any serious attempt to run service along the full length of Springfield Boulevard, at least not until the modern era. There was then never really a need to do so. |
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