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B53
Age: 58 Joined: 21 Jan 2014 Posts: 2
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 6:20 pm Post subject: B53 renamed Q54 |
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Hello. Does anyone know why the B53 bus, which ran from Bridge Plaza in Williamsburg to Jamaica Queens, was renamed the Q54? |
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N4 Jamaica
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Long Island
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Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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I can make only a guess about "Why" the B53 became the Q54 in December of 1988.
Please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bus_lines_in_Queens
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The date of several changes from B to Q, other renumberings and reroutings was December 11, 1988, when the Archer Avenue subway was opened. I think the new routes to serve Archer Avenue made sense. I think the dropping of the A suffix made sense. As for the B to Q changes, I suspect that in most cases the route travels mostly in Queens, so it deserved a Q, not a B. Case in point, the Metropolitan Avenue car line ran within Brooklyn only to English Kills, where it entered Queens.
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The streetcars did not carry route letters or numbers. I suspect that several of the routes received B designations upon bustitution in 1949 or 1950 because they began their routes in Brooklyn, at least from a Brooklyn point-of-view. In 1988, the change to Q designations may have been based on distance traveled.
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It is possible that the B designations assigned in 1949 or 1950 were made by a Department of Franchises rather than the Board of Transportation.
Joe McMahon |
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B53
Age: 58 Joined: 21 Jan 2014 Posts: 2
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:46 pm Post subject: From B to Q |
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Thank you for your reply. |
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BrooklynBus
Age: 74 Joined: 19 Aug 2007 Posts: 135 Location: Brooklyn
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Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Actually, the buses themselves didn't specify borough prefixes until the New Looks arrived in 1959, with the possible exception of a few Manhattan bus routes. |
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