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Bus Lanes and Faster Boarding Come to Flushing and Jamaica
Sunday marked the first day of service for Q44 Select Bus Service linking Jamaica, Flushing, and the southeast Bronx, so I headed over to Sutphin Boulevard and Main Street during the p.m. rush yesterday to check it out.
December 2, 2015
State’s Top Court: Low-Cost Parking Is Not a Tax-Free Charity
The owner of five Queens cut-rate parking facilities will have to pay property taxes, the state's top court has ruled. The New York State Court of Appeals upheld the city's decision to take back a tax exemption it had previously granted the politically-connected non-profit that operates 2,000 parking spaces in downtown Jamaica.
July 30, 2015
Q44 Select Bus Service: Bus Lanes for Flushing and Jamaica, Not in Between
DOT and the MTA have released the plan for Select Bus Service on the Q44 linking Jamaica, Flushing, and the Bronx, which serves 44,000 passengers daily. The areas that need bus lanes most -- downtown Jamaica and Flushing -- are in line to get them, but not the rest of the route.
May 28, 2015
Eastern Queens Electeds Want Bus Lanes. Will DOT Deliver?
Council Member Rory Lancman and Assembly Member Michael Simanowitz have taken up the cause of opposing bus lanes for Select Bus Service in their eastern Queens districts. While the pair has gotten a lot of attention, they are outnumbered by almost a dozen city, state, and federal elected officials along the route urging the city to be bolder with its bus service upgrades.
February 19, 2015
Lancman and Simanowitz: Let’s Keep Queens Bus Riders Stuck in Traffic
Tonight, DOT and the MTA will hold an open house to solicit input for proposed Select Bus Service routes linking Flushing and Jamaica. The plan to reduce travel times for tens of thousands of Queens bus riders has broad support from advocates and local electeds, including Assembly Member Nily Rozic. But the Times Ledger reports that Assembly Member Michael Simanowitz and City Council Member Rory Lancman, who purport to be in favor of the project, oppose dedicating new street space to buses.
January 22, 2015
Fixes Set for Dangerous Jamaica Hills Intersection
The intersections surrounding Hillside Avenue, Homelawn Street, and 169th Street in Jamaica Hills are on track for pedestrian safety upgrades this spring after NYC DOT's plan [PDF] received the support of Queens Community Board 8 last week.
March 3, 2014
Hit-and-Run Driver Not Charged in Death of Queens Pedestrian Mosa Khatun
A hit-and-run driver who fatally struck a woman in Jamaica last night will not be charged with a crime, according to NYPD.
January 6, 2014
No Charges Filed for Pedestrian Deaths in Jamaica and East New York
Editor's note: As we were finishing up this story, Gothamist reported that a 36-year-old cyclist was killed this morning in Claremont, and that another cyclist struck by a truck driver in Downtown Brooklyn earlier this month has died from his injuries. We will have more on these fatalities in a future post.
October 30, 2013
Five Killed in Four Days: Holiday Season Marked by Pedestrian Deaths
In separate crashes in Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx, city motorists killed five pedestrians between Christmas and New Year's Day. Four of the crashes, which took the lives of a child and three young mothers, were hit-and-runs.
January 2, 2013
Queens Pedestrian Maleka Begum, 54, Killed by Bus Driver Making a Turn
A 54-year-old woman was killed by a bus driver in Jamaica Saturday night.
October 15, 2012