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A 2013 Motor Coach D4500CT (2272) on the Midtown-bound X64 on the Long Island Expressway’s HOV lane near the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) operates 80 express bus routes in New York City, United States. Express routes operated by MTA Bus Company are assigned multi-borough (BM, BxM, QM) prefixes.
East of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel, I-495 is known as the Long Island Expressway (LIE [note 1]). Spanning approximately 66 miles (106 km), I-495 traverses Long Island from the western portal of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of Manhattan to County Route 58 (CR 58) in Riverhead in the east.
No stops within Long Island Jewish Hospital. [51] Limited-stop service operates during weekday rush hours: in both directions during the a.m. rush, and in the eastbound direction (toward 260th Street or Long Island Jewish Medical Center) during the p.m. rush. During the a.m. rush: Westbound local service begins at Springfield Boulevard.
The routes originating in Glen Oaks would have also been diverted to use the Long Island Expressway rather than Union Turnpike west of 188th Street. [36] The redesign was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, [37] and the original draft plan was dropped due to negative feedback. [38] A revised plan was released in March 2022. [39]
The bus route then continues via Queens Boulevard until it turns onto the Long Island Expressway. It then goes under the East River through the Queens Midtown Tunnel. Once in Manhattan the bus goes via Sixth Avenue. The bus drops off passengers and then turns via 57th Street, terminating at Third Avenue. [5] [6] [3]
Most routes west of Port Jefferson and Patchogue are scheduled with 30 minute headways (60 minutes on routes 3, 10 and 15) during weekdays until at least 6:00 p.m. On all routes from Port Jefferson and Patchogue and to the east, including the north-south routes between those two terminals, there are 60-minute headways (except for 30-minute headways on routes 51 and 66).
A final bus-redesign plan was released in December 2023. [33] [34] The Q58 would retain its existing routing via Corona Avenue and the Long Island Expressway but would be a "limited" route, with slightly fewer stops than the existing Q58 local service.
On May 2, 1933, North Shore Bus began a shuttle service along Main Street between Main Street/Roosevelt Avenue subway station in Flushing and Horace Harding Boulevard (now the Long Island Expressway) in Queensboro Hill. This was the predecessor to Q44 service. [17]