Updated: December 20, 2024
This past week the MTA released its Queens Bus Network Redesign Proposed Final Plan. The Proposed Final Plan has substantially changed from the prior proposal, which would have had the Q110 bus traversing both Tulip Avenue and South Tyson Avenue and terminating at the Floral Park train station. The Final Plan does not have the Q110 entering the Village at all. We are appreciative of the MTA listening to our reasonable arguments as to why the proposal had a number of logistical issues and was not significantly beneficial to any of their customers or our residents.
I would like to thank all of our community members who either wrote letters or spoke at the public hearing (including Deputy Mayor Pombonyo, Village Administrator Bambrick, former Mayor Dominick Longobardi and County Legislator Scott Strauss) in Queens over the summer. I would especially like to thank Trustee Jen Stewart for her leadership and passion from start to finish when we first heard of the proposal in ensuring Floral Park would not be negatively affected by the proposal.
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Updated: July 25, 2024
Click here for an update following the July 24th MTA Queens Bus Network Redesign hearing.
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Updated: July 19, 2024
As reported by Mayor Fitzgerald and Trustee Jennifer Stewart at the June 4th Village Board meeting, the Village was informed last week that the MTA recently proposed bringing a new New York City bus line, the Q110, into the Village with a stop at the Floral Park LIRR Station. Information from the MTA/LIRR on this recent proposal is sketchy at best. Pictures of the route show the bus turning south off of Jericho Turnpike onto Carnation Avenue, turning left onto Caroline Place, continuing to the LIRR Station, stopping along the station, and continuing back to Jericho Turnpike north along Tulip Avenue. The traffic and other problems with this plan are clear. The MTA conveyed that they also have considered another, alternate route which would utilize South Tyson Avenue for the return route to Jericho Turnpike for the buses. The alternate proposal to use South Tyson Avenue is not included or reflected in this current plan. The Village has clearly informed the MTA that both proposals are unworkable and unacceptable to the Village.
The Village is vehemently opposed to this plan, and will use any and all resources at our disposal to fight it. The MTA has conveyed that if there is not community support for a proposal, it will not be included in the Final Plan. The Village has submitted its Objection and Comments to the MTA Queens Bus Network Redesign (the “Village’s Objection and Comments”) Proposed Final Plan. The Village’s Objection and Comments are available here. We ask our residents to educate themselves on this proposal and we encourage you to provide comments and feedback to the MTA to help us have this proposal removed from the Final Plan.
Links to the proposed MTA Queens Bus Network Re-design Project is included below, as well as a link to the comment portal for this plan. We will continue to inform residents as information becomes available.
Please check the MTA Queens Bus Network Redesign Project at
https://new.mta.info/project/queens-bus-network-redesign
Page 388 and 389 of the Final Plan gives more detail of the schedule and new route of the Q110.
https://new.mta.info/document/128476
And this is the link to the comments portal for the MTA Queens Bus Network Re-design Project:
https://contact.mta.info/s/forms/bus-network-redesign
Click here for the Village’s Resolution to Oppose the MTA Bus Network Redesign Proposed Final Plan