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Holden announces Maspeth bus
redesign workshop on March 9
BY MAX PARROTT
MPARROTT@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
Aft er miscommunication and short tempers led
to an abrupt end of the Feb. 12 bus redesign
hearing in Middle Village, Councilman Robert
Holden is trying again to give his bus commuters
a voice, this time in Maspeth.
Holden announced a Queens Bus Network Redesign
workshop with Metropolitan Transportation
Authority officials from 6:30 to 8 p.m., on March
9 at P.S. 153, located at 60-02 60th Ln.
“Yes, this will be a WORKSHOP with plenty of
MTA officials on hand to speak to local residents,
so come and give them your feedback!” tweeted
Holden.
The abrupt end of the last meeting in Holden’s
district resulted from the crowd’s negative reaction
to the meeting’s Q&A format. Holden hopes to
avoid this outcome with the workshop approach to
collecting feedback from his constituents.
Maspeth residents have expressed concerns
about the portion of local service that was cut
in the MTA’s draft plan. In the draft, two of Maspeth’s
major routes, the Q18 and the Q47, were
consolidated into one north-south line, the QT4.
This change creates gaps in coverage to the west
of Mt. Zion Cemetery, residents have said.
The Q18 bus. Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Other Maspeth residents say that the Q18 fulfilled
an important role by intersecting the 61st
Avenue-Woodside station, a crucial 7 train hub
due to its wheelchair access.
One goal of the redesign plan was to make paths
more efficient and direct, which suggests that the
the Q18 circuitous path might explain why it was
cut out the draft. Residents will have a chance to
meet directly with MTA officials to voice their
feedback.
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