Q55 (New York City bus)
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| Richmond Hill Line Myrtle Avenue (East) line |
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| Overview | |||
| System | MTA Regional Bus Operations | ||
| Operator | New York City Transit Authority | ||
| Garage | Fresh Pond Depot | ||
| Ended service | April 26, 1950 (Trolley) | ||
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| Locale | Queens | ||
| Start | Ridgewood Terminal | ||
| Via | Myrtle Avenue | ||
| End | Richmond Hill, Queens – Myrtle Avenue and Jamaica Avenue | ||
| Other routes | B54 (Myrtle Avenue West) | ||
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| Operates | 24 hours | ||
| Daily ridership | 2,446,537 (2014) | ||
| Fare | $2.75 (MetroCard or coins) | ||
| Cash | Coins only (exact change required) | ||
| Transfers | Yes | ||
| Timetable | Q55 | ||
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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. The trolley tracks were not removed until April 1955, when Myrtle Avenue was being repaved. 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.
The current Q55 route is identical to the route it used when it opened in 1950. 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.
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