NYC Transit Strike Day 2 in Queens - Tips and News
Tomorrow the LIRR will start a shuttle service between Jamaica and Penn Station, increasing capacity and hoprefully improving transit times from today's delays.
The line at Forest Hills LIRR station was also very long and slow for ticket buyers -- not if you already have a LIRR ticket -- and the same must have been true at Woodside and Kew Gardens. The Bayside station, however, was not overloaded. The whole Port Washington line moved well except at Flushing-Main Street, where folks who normally take the #7 lined up for the LIRR.
In Long Island City, car pools formed outside the #7 subway stop at the Hunters Point Avenue and 21st Street.
The city-run car pool staging area at Shea Stadium was busy this morning but slow. Commuters found passengers to meet the HOV-4 requirement to enter Manhattan, but it took time. The same restriction will be in place again tomorrow morning. You need four people in a car to cross over to Manhattan.
The Green Bus Line is running in southeastern Queens and its few express bus to Manhattan. But good luck catching one of those. One it's full, the bus is off. (Brooklyn's Command Bus Line is also running.)
On Monday and today the dollar vans have been out in force, making pick-ups along bus routes, especially in southeastern Queens.
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