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Our Next Meeting

Town Meeting
Thursday, April 19
7:30pm
Our Lady of Hope School

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Hello Queens Civics and Stakeholders:

Thank you all so much to the Civic groups that attended the Queens Borough President Civic Roundtable last evening and provided the MTA Redesign Team with feedback regarding our bus route and bus stop proposals. We encourage you to keep sharing your feedback directly with us but also with your elected representatives. We have heard from almost every elected office in Queens with feedback from their constituents on the Proposed Final Plan and we appreciate the engagement from elected officials on behalf of their communities.

In December 2023, the MTA released the next report in the Queens Bus Network Redesign initiative, the Proposed Final Plan. In this Plan we further refine the Queens bus network to address the needs of our stakeholders while balancing trade-offs and using network redesign strategies to achieve our customer priorities: Reliable Service, Faster Travel, Better Connections, and Simplified Service. We appreciate hearing from every corner of Queens and so much of the feedback we have received has been incorporated into each draft of the Redesign proposals.

For our next round of Spring outreach, we will be visiting key bus hub and transfer points around Queens. Here are the dates listed below:

The Redesign team will be out in communities across Queens on the dates listed below from 4-7 p.m. In the case of extreme weather, events may be rescheduled so customers are advised to check the project webpage before heading out to an event.

Monday, March 25: 165 St Bus Terminal, underneath the canopy of the bus bays
Tuesday, March 26: Flushing-Main St ​, on the central mezzanine of the subway station
Wednesday, March 27: Queens Center Mall, the northwest corner of Queens Blvd and Woodhaven Blvd
Tuesday, April 2: Jamaica-179 St ​, on the central mezzanine
Wednesday, April 3: Myrtle-Wyckoff Pedestrian Plaza outside of ​​ subway station (between Gates Av and Palmetto St)
Wednesday, April 3: Rockaway Park-Beach 116 St ​​(A) subway station main entrance
Monday, April 8: Diversity Plaza near Jackson Heights 74 St-Roosevelt Av ​​​​​ (7) subway station (between Broadway & 74 St)
Tuesday, April 9: Woodhaven Blvd southbound bus median outside the Rockaway Blvd ​ subway station (in front of PC Richard & Son)
Monday, April 15: Queens Village LIRR Station, at the corner of Springfield Blvd and Amboy Ln
Tuesday, April 16: Union Tpke and Utopia Pkwy, on the southeast corner
Wednesday, April 17: Lefferts Blvd AirTrain Station, near the Q3, Q10, and B15 bus stops
Wednesday, April 17: Queens Plaza South and 28 St, on the southwest corner of the intersection

In partnership with the MTA’s Mobile Sales team, the Queens Bus Network Redesign team will be on-site at five Mobile Sales locations this spring to meet with bus customers, talk about the Proposed Final Plan and routes proposed in their neighborhood, and receive feedback.

Monday, April 8 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in Astoria at Ditmars Blvd and 23 Av
Tuesday, April 16 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Rochdale Village Senior Center
Thursday, April 18 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. in Jamaica at the Allen Community Senior Citizens Center
Friday, May 3 from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. at the Rego Park Mall outside Marshall’s
Monday, May 13 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. at the Bay Terrace Shopping Center (Bell Blvd and 24 Av)

Please be sure to visit the project website. And take a look at the resources there to learn more about how the new route proposals may impact your commute and let us know what you think! We will be releasing our Open House dates and locations shortly!

Check out your proposed commute in the Future Trip Planner!

The routes shown in the Proposed Final Plan have been uploaded to the Future Trip Planner so people can get a sense of the routes they would be interested in and their average travel times.

The new routes will be available for preview via a trip planning tool that allows customers to input a start and end location and see an overview of their trip with the bus route changes in effect. After entering their trip information, customers can drag the start and end flags across the map and watch their options and routes shift in real time.

Enter your start and end locations to see which routes you might use!

Interactive network maps

We need your feedback! Use this interactive Remix map to view our proposed bus routes and stops in detail. Please provide comments using the "Post Comment" button on the top right of the page. Then click on the route that you would like to comment on.

Proposed Local & Express Bus Network



System maps

Proposed Local Network Map
Proposed Express Bus Network Map
Proposed Network Frequency Map
Proposed All Day Frequent Network Map
Proposed Overnight Network Map
Proposed Interborough Network Map
We look forward to continuing the conversation to improve bus service with Queens bus customers and stakeholders and look forward to your continued participation in this process.

Thank you,

The Queens Redesign Team
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The next topic for discussion should be tie IBX (Interborough Express train) that is slated to come through middle village. Most people I have approached on the topic have never heard of it, even though a train station is planned for Elliot avenue near the freight train tracks. The IBX is a $5.2 billion project that will run 14 miles from Bayridge Brooklyn to 74 Street in Jackson heights. We urgently need a meeting on this. The feasibility project is done and an environmental study is underway. The passenger trains will run every 5-8 minutes. Can the community take a vote on this?

In case you don’t know, the Q38 will no longer go down Eliot Ave in this plan.

Timeline photosReunited and it feels so good!

We were able to reunite Max with his owners 🐢! Remember folks, always register your pets microchip!
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So happy for you Max!🐾

So happy

Very cool Maaaaaaaaaxxxx πŸ’ͺπŸ™πŸ•πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ’ͺ

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Maybe they should of had this meeting belfiore the illegal men Moved in

Chris Leone

I’m confused. What’s the point of these meetings? They’re not going to close the immigrant (NOT MIGRANT) shelter.

Will the outcome be any different than it is now? πŸ’€

Keep electing democrats .. the balls on yous to complain now

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