Richmond Hill Line

For additional information on the current bus service, see List of bus routes in Queens. For other uses, see Richmond Hill Line (disambiguation).
Q55
Richmond Hill Line
Myrtle Avenue (East) line
Overview
System MTA Regional Bus Operations
Operator New York City Transit Authority
Garage Fresh Pond Depot
Ended service April 26, 1950 (Trolley)
Route
Locale Queens
Start Ridgewood Terminal
Via Myrtle Avenue
End Richmond Hill, Queens – Myrtle Avenue and Jamaica Avenue
Other routes B54 (Myrtle Avenue West)
Service
Operates 24 hours[1]
Daily ridership 2,446,537 (2014)[2]
Fare $2.75 (MetroCard or coins)
Cash Coins only (exact change required)
Transfers Yes
Timetable Q55
← Q54  {{{system_nav}}}  Q56 →

The Richmond Hill Line is a surface transit line on Myrtle Avenue in Queens, New York City, United States. Once a streetcar line owned by the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation, it was replaced on April 26, 1950 by the B55 bus route.[3][4][5] The trolley tracks were not removed until April 1955, when Myrtle Avenue was being repaved.[6] The bus was renumbered on December 11, 1988 as the Q55 Myrtle Avenue (East) bus route (as opposed to the B54 route on the western portion of Myrtle Avenue), operated by the New York City Transit Authority.[7]

Current route

The current Q55 route is identical to the route it used when it opened in 1950.[3] The Q55 begins at the Ridgewood Intermodal Terminal at the Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues Subway station on the Brooklyn-Queens border. It then runs via Myrtle Avenue, cutting through Forest Park, and continuing to Jamaica Avenue and Myrtle Avenue in Richmond Hill, where it meets up with the 121st Street Subway station.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Q55 bus schedule MTA Regional Bus Operations.
  2. ↑ "Facts and Figures". mta.info. 2011-08-28. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  3. 1 2 "New Bus Line In Queens: Trolley Coaches to be Restored to a Brooklyn Street". New York Times. April 23, 1950. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Seyfried, Vincent F. (1950). "Full text of "New York and Queens County Railway and the Steinway Lines, 1867-1939."". archive.org. Vincent F. Seyfried. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Brooklyn Trolley Depots". New York Division Bulletin. Electric Railroaders' Association. 51 (6): 7. August 2008. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  6. ↑ "Repaving for Myrtle Avenue". New York Times. March 27, 1955. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  7. ↑ Archer Avenue Changes
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