q58 q98 ltd
Flushing–Ridgewood Line Corona Avenue Line Fresh Pond Road Line
2015 XD40 #7402 on the Q58 and 2021 LFS #8778 on the Q98 at Sanford Avenue/Frame Place heading toward Ridgewood
Overview
System	MTA Regional Bus Operations
Operator	New York City Transit Authority
Garage	Casey Stengel Depot
Vehicle	New FlyerXcelsior XD40 Nova BusLFS OrionVII NG HEV
Began service	June 20, 1896 (Fresh Pond Road Line) November 1899 (Flushing–Ridgewood Line) July 17, 1949 (bus)[1] September 12, 2010 (Q58 Limited) June 29, 2025 (Q98 Limited)
Route
Locale	Queens, New York, U.S.
Communities served	Ridgewood,Maspeth,Elmhurst,Corona,Rego Park,Forest Hills,Flushing
Start	Ridgewood Intermodal Terminal
Via	Fresh Pond Road,Flushing Avenue,Grand Avenue, Broadway/Corona Avenue (Q58 only),Queens Boulevard (Q98 only),Horace Harding Expressway, College Point Boulevard
End	Flushing –Main Street & 41st Road
Length	8.3 miles (13.4 km) (Q58) 7.6 miles (12.2 km) (Q98)
Other routes	Q59 Grand Street/Grand Avenue
Service
Operates	24 hours (Q58) All times except late nights (Q98)
Annual patronage	7,189,253 (2024)[2]
Transfers	Yes
Timetable	Q58/Q98
Route map Flushing –Main StreetStation Q58  Q98  ​ College Point Boulevard / 41st Road–Sanford Avenue Avery–Fowler Avenues 58th Road–58th Avenue 108th Street /Horace Harding Expressway Horace Harding Expressway / 99th Street Queens Boulevard /Woodhaven Boulevard ​ Van Cleef Street 51st Avenue 104th Street 102nd Street National–98th Streets Junction Boulevard 91st Place Broadway / Corona Avenue Justice Avenue ​ Queens Boulevard / Grand Avenue ​ Van Horn Street 84th Street–Calamus Avenue 74th Street 71st Street 69th Place 66th Street Flushing Avenue / Fresh Pond Road 60th Road–60th Avenue Metropolitan Avenue–Bleecker Street Linden Street–Grove Street Fresh Pond Road / Putnam Avenue Forest Avenue Onderdonk Avenue Cypress Avenue Myrtle Avenue Ridgewood Terminal Q58  Q98  ​ Legend Local & Limited stops Local stops  Q58  Terminal  Q98  Limited-stop service runs daily ​ Subway connection ← Q56 ←Q90  {{{system_nav}}}  Q59 → Q100 →

TheQ58 andQ98 Limited arebus routes that constitute apublic transit line operating primarily inQueens,New York City, with its southern terminal on the border withBrooklyn. Both routes are operated by theMTANew York City Transit Authority. Its precursor was astreetcar line that began operation in November 1899.^[3] and was known variously as theFlushing–Ridgewood Line, theCorona Avenue Line,^[1] and theFresh Pond Road Line. The route became a bus line in 1949.^[1] Limited-stop service on the Q58 route was implemented in 2010 and was replaced with the brand-new Q98 in 2025.

The Q58 and Q98 operate between two majorbus/subway hubs: theRidgewood Terminal on the border ofRidgewood, Queens andBushwick, Brooklyn; and theFlushing – Main Street terminal inDowntown Flushing, Queens. The Q58 is the busiest bus line in the borough of Queens,^[4] and the second busiest in the city, after theM15, with 7.19 million people riding the route in 2024.^[2]

The original route of the Flushing–Ridgewood streetcar began at 41st Road and Main Street in Downtown Flushing, just south of theMain Street station of theLong Island Rail Road, and several blocks south of theMain Street subway station on theIRT Flushing Line. It ran south on Lawrence and Rodman Streets, and west on Horace Harding Boulevard toCorona, crossing theFlushing River at Strong's Causeway. It then ran generally west along the winding Corona Avenue to Queens Boulevard inElmhurst, and onGrand Avenue toMaspeth. BetweenJunction Boulevard in Corona and the intersection of Grand and Flushing Avenues in Maspeth, the line shared a right-of-way with theGrand Street Line. After a short portion on Flushing Avenue and 61st Street, it ran south down Fresh Pond Road to theFresh Pond Road station of theBMT Myrtle Avenue Line, where amajor trolley barn existed. It then followed the right-of-way of the Myrtle El and former Lutheran Cemetery Surface Line to its own dedicated barn at the Ridgewood Depot, located at Palmetto Street underneath theMyrtle–Wyckoff Avenueelevated station.^{[1][3][5][6][7]}

The current Q58 bus route follows the former trolley route, with some exceptions. The right-of-ways of Lawrence Street and Rodman Street along the route have since been replaced with College Point Boulevard, while theLong Island Expressway was built over the corridor containing Horace Harding Boulevard and Strong's Causeway. Some northbound buses may terminate at Long Island Expressway and 108th Street, and some southbound buses may terminate at Fresh Pond Road and 67th Avenue. The former trolley barn at Fresh Pond Road is now theFresh Pond Bus Depot in Ridgewood, where the route was dispatched from until 2025 (during 2019, the route was dispatched from the Grand Avenue Depot in Maspeth).^{[4][8][9][10][11][12]} Due to using several different streets, including winding roads and many tight turns, the Q58 consistently ranks among the slowest bus routes in New York City, and has been cited for pedestrian safety issues.^[9][13] Short strips of the trolley tracks still exist in Ridgewood, at 60th Place and at Woodbine Street underneath the Myrtle El. Tracks on the rest of the route were paved over.^[14][15]

The Q98 generally follows the Q58's route, except for between the Grand Avenue–Queens Boulevard and Horace Harding Boulevard–108th Street intersections. Eastbound (toward Flushing), the Q58 and Q98 begins at Ridgewood Terminal and follows several local streets to reach Fresh Pond Road, where it turns north. The Q58 and Q98 then turn east along Grand Avenue and continue to Queens Boulevard.^[16][17] The Q58 continues north along Broadway, east along Corona Avenue, and then south along 108th Street before turning east along Horace Harding Expressway.^[16] The Q98 takes a more direct route east of the Grand Avenue–Queens Boulevard intersection, turning southeast along Queens Boulevard and east along Horace Harding Expressway.^[17] Both routes turn north along College Point Boulevard to 41st Road, where they turn east, terminating at Main Street. The westbound routes (toward Ridgewood) are mostly the same as their Flushing-bound counterparts, except that they begin at Sanford Avenue instead of 41st Road, and use different streets in Ridgewood.^[16][17]

When school is in session, five buses originate at 74th Street to accommodate students at Maspeth High School. Of the four 2:30 trips, one heads to Ridgewood and three head to Flushing, with one bus terminating at Horace Harding Expressway. One more bus departs for Flushing at 2:35.

Several more trips accommodate students at nearby I.S. 73 by originating at 71st Street. The first two depart for Horace Harding Expressway at 2:25, and three more depart for Flushing at 2:30. The last two that head for Flushing at 2:35 do not stop outside the school.

All eastbound trippers use the Q58 designation and run via Corona Avenue.^[10]

The streetcar line was operated by theBrooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation, a subsidiary of theBrooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) and laterBrooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) which operated many streetcar lines, and several rapid transit lines including some of the city's first subway lines.^[3][18] The line began operation on June 20, 1896, as the Fresh Pond Road Line. It ran the same route as the modern Q58 from Ridgewood to Corona, turning north at Junction Boulevard (then Junction Avenue) and Corona Avenue towardsBowery Bay (the current site ofLaGuardia Airport).^[3] In November 1899, the Flushing–Ridgewood routing began service. Around this time, the Junction Boulevard portion of the line became a shuttle known as theNorth Beach Line, while theGrand Street Line was truncated to the Maspeth Trolley Depot at Grand Avenue and 69th Street.^[3] On October 19, 1919, the line was extended from the Fresh Pond Depot south to Ridgewood terminal at the Brooklyn-Queens line.^[19] Between 1939 and 1940, the line served passengers going to the1939 New York World's Fair inFlushing Meadows–Corona Park.^[3][18][20]

Beginning in the 1920s, manystreetcar lines in Queens,Brooklyn, and the rest of the city began to be replaced by buses, particularly after theunification of city's three primary transit companies (including the BMT) under municipal operations in June 1940.^[8] Buses began running on the line as early as 1946.^[21] On June 30, 1949, theNew York City Board of Estimate approved the full motorization of the line with buses.^[22] The Flushing–Ridgewood line was officially replaced by city-owned buses on July 17, 1949,^[1][5] The line was designated B58 ("B" the designation for buses based in Brooklyn), and the line was renamed the Corona Avenue Line. The early fleet consisted ofGeneral Motors-built buses.^[1][5]

On July 27, 1960, the B58 was moved to the newly opened Fresh Pond Bus Depot, after operating from bus depots in Brooklyn.^[12] During the1964 New York World's Fair, the B58 was rerouted to stop at the Rodman Street entrance of Flushing Meadows Park.^[23][24] On December 11, 1988, the B58 was renumbered to the Q58.^[25] Due to slow trips and high passenger load, limited-stop service was added to the route on September 12, 2010.^[4][26] Community Boards 5 and 8 had been asking for the introduction of limited-stop service for the Q58 for years, but limited service was only added at this time because the Q58 had reached the headway required for limited-stop service. Until at least 2014,Casey Stengel Depot operated school trippers toJunction Boulevard. On January 6, 2019, the Q58 was moved to theGrand Avenue Depot, possibly in preparation for conversion toSelect Bus Service (SBS), since the Grand Avenue Depot can hold the articulated buses used on the SBS system. However, the Q58 was moved back to the Fresh Pond Depot on January 19, 2020.^[27]

In December 2019, the MTA released a draft redesign of the Queens bus network.^[28][29] As part of the redesign, the Q58 would have become a "intra-borough" route called the QT58, and it would be rerouted east of 108th Street to use Roosevelt Avenue rather than Horace Harding Expressway and College Point Boulevard. A new "high-density" route known as the QT6 would have been created, running parallel to the QT58 from Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues to Grand Avenue–Newtown before running along Queens Boulevard, Horace Harding Expressway, and College Point Boulevard. The QT6 would have fewer stops than the QT58.^[30] The redesign was delayed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic in New York City in 2020,^[31] and the original draft plan was dropped due to negative feedback.^[32]

A revised plan was released in March 2022.^[33] Under the new plan, the Q58 would use 111st Street and Roosevelt Avenue to cross Flushing Meadows Park. A new "crosstown" route with limited stops, the Q98, was also proposed; it would duplicate the QT6 proposal and would make many of the same stops as the existing Q58 Limited. West of the intersection of Grand Avenue and Queens Boulevard, the Q98 would follow the Q58. East of that intersection, the Q98 would run along Queens Boulevard, Horace Harding Expressway, and College Point Boulevard.^[34]

A final bus redesign plan was released in December 2023.^[35][36] The Q58 would retain its existing routing via Corona Avenue and the Long Island Expressway but would be a "limited" route, with slightly fewer stops than the existing Q58 local service.^{[37]: 281–282} The new Q98 route would still be a crosstown orSelect Bus Service route; it would follow the Q58 west of the intersection of Grand Avenue and Queens Boulevard, and it would run on Queens Boulevard, Horace Harding Expressway, and College Point Boulevard east of that intersection. The combined frequencies of the Q58 and Q98 would be increased slightly compared with the existing Q58/Q58 Limited service.^{[37]: 370–371}

On December 17, 2024, addendums to the final plan were released.^[38][39] Among these, bus stops on the Q58 were rearranged, while select off-peak and weekend trips were moved back from the Q98 to the Q58. The Q98 was also changed to a "Limited" route.^[40] On January 29, 2025, the current plan was approved by the MTA Board,^[41] and the Queens Bus Redesign went into effect in two different phases during Summer 2025.^[42] The sole Q58 route was changed from “Limited” to “Local” after the approval, and both routes were assigned to Phase I, which started on June 29, 2025.^[43][44]

On June 21, 2017, a bus set in neutral went backwards along Palmetto Street and crashed into Saint Paul Lutheran Church on Knickerbocker Avenue after the driver completed a Q58 trip to Ridgewood. No one was hit by the bus, but a man was slightly injured from a life-saving jump.^[45]

Source:^[46][47]

• B13,B26,B52,B54,Q55 (at Ridgewood Term)
• B38 (at Seneca Avenue)
• Q14,Q39 (at Forest/Eliot Avenues)
• B20 (at Fresh Pond Road)
• Q54 (at Metropolitan Avenue)
• B57 (at Flushing Avenue)
• Q59 (at Grand Avenue)
• Q18,Q67 (at 69th Street)
• Q47 (at 79th/80th Streets)
• Q53 SBS,Q60 (at Queens Boulevard)
• Q29 (at 90th/92nd Streets)
• Q72 (at Junction Boulevard)
• Q14 (at National/99th Streets)
• Q23 (at 108th Street)
• Q88 (at Horace Harding Expressway)
• Q11,Q52 SBS (at Woodhaven Boulevard; Q98 only)
• Q20,Q44 SBS (at Main Street)

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