Queens Surface Corporation

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Ex-Queens Surface OM4 bus in Midtown Manhattan

Queens Surface Corporation was a bus company in New York City, United States, operating local service in Queens and the Bronx and express service between Queens and Manhattan until February 27, 2005, when the MTA Bus Company took over the operations.

Queens Surface Corporation was privately held by the Burke family.^{[citation needed]} The Queens Surface Corporation facility was located at 128-15 28th Avenue (near the New York Times printing plant^{[citation needed]}) in the College Point neighborhood of Queens.

Queens-Nassau Transit Lines began operating bus replacements for the New York and Queens Transit Corporation trolleys in 1937, and was renamed Queens Transit Corporation in 1957. Steinway Omnibus (changed to Steinway Transit in the mid-1960s) began operating buses over former Steinway Railway lines in the Fall of 1939, and the two companies merged in 1986 to form the Queens/Steinway Transit Corporation. The company was owned by the Salzberg scrap metal interests, which had ripped up the rails, until 1988, when the Linden Bus Company (no relationship to a similarly-named company in New Jersey^{[citation needed]}) acquired the routes. Shortly thereafter and before operations commenced, Linden Bus Company changed its name to Queens Surface Corporation.

Just prior to MTA Bus takeover, Queens Surface operated the following routes that are now based in College Point Bus Depot^{[citation needed]}:

Queens local

• Former Queens Transit Lines
• Q25 Jamaica - College Point via Parsons Boulevard
• Q34 Jamaica - Whitestone via Parsons Boulevard
• Q65 College Point - Jamaica, via 164th Street
• Q65A Electchester - Forest Hills, via Jewel Avenue
• Q66 Flushing - Long Island City, via Northern Boulevard
• Q67 Long Island City - Middle Village

• Former Steinway Transit Lines
• Q101 East Midtown, Manhattan - Astoria, via Steinway Street
• Q101R Long Island City - Rikers Island, Limited stop service
• Q102 Astoria - Roosevelt Island, via 31st Street
• Q103 Astoria - Hunters Point, via Vernon Boulevard
• Q104 Ravenswood - Sunnyside, via Broadway

Multi-borough local

• QBx1 Flushing - Co-Op City, Bronx

Express

• QM1 Midtown or Downtown, Manhattan - Fresh Meadows, via Union Turnpike
• QM1A Midtown or Downtown, Manhattan - Glen Oaks, via Union Turnpike
• QM2 Midtown, Manhattan - Bay Terrance, via Cross Island Parkway and Whitestone Expressway
• QM2A Midtown, Manhattan - Bay Terrance, via Willets Point Boulevard
• QM3 Midtown, Manhattan - Douglaston, via Northern Boulevard
• QM4 Midtown, Manhattan - Electchester, via Jewel Avenue

[edit] References

• Queens Surface Corp (via the Internet Archive)
• NYCDOT - Privately Operated Bus Service (as of early-to-mid 2000s, accessed January 19, 2007)
• Chicago Transit & Railfan Web Site: New York City Transit Routes: Queens

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