“That’s gonna be a problem, people are gonna complain about it,” said Angie Gonzalez, another resident of 40 years. To make it work, officials would likely have to scrap dozens of parking spaces along 31st - and that’s where the battle line will likely be drawn. The proposed bus connection from Astoria to LaGuardia Airport. The plan calls for running the bus lanes on 31st, continuing north into a Con Edison Yard before heading east on 19th Avenue and coming back out onto public streets. In Astoria, 31st Street is wide and largely quiet along the proposed bus’s route, but beneath the elevated tracks it is littered with double parking and some combat parking of drivers with placards and agency vests in their dashboards. There are no bus lines going that way currently, but the roadways are promising. The “dedicated” lanes would go on 31st Street and 19th Avenue (although potentially limited just to peak times) to get quickly between the station and the airport.
The Authority’s expert panel that reviewed the now-derailed monorail recommended instead tweaks to the Q70 and new bus lanes from the Ditmars Boulevard subway station in Astoria to the airport at a combined $500-million price tag. Both buses will have to make their way through some busy local streets with plenty of double parking, which would slow down trips for millions of riders a year. The Port Authority’s alternatives to the AirTrain that Hochul officially scrapped on Monday come in the form of an improved Q70 LaGuardia Link bus from Jackson Heights and Woodside, and a completely new shuttle from the terminus of the N/W trains in Astoria. Hochul’s proposed bus improvements for Queens’s landmark LaGuardia Airport have the chance to be a major boon for riders, but state and city transit planners will have to ensure the shuttles don’t get stuck behind something else for which the borough is famous: car traffic.
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