MTA NYC Bus/MTA Bus Company/NICE Bus/LIRR: Big Time Fanning In Jamaica (20th Birthday Special!)

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It's my 20th Birthday, so to celebrate, I took my first trip to Jamaica since May 14th, and well, I wasn't disappointed one bit! I caught a lot of buses on both Archer Avenue and Jamaica Avenue. 75 Percent of this video takes place on the Archer Avenue East Busway, and the rest, on the Jamaica Avenue Busway.

Routes shown:
Q4: Jamaica Center - Cambria Heights-235th Street
Q5: Jamaica Center - Green Acres, 231st Street or Rosedale LIRR Station
Q6: 165th Street Terminal - JFK Airport-North Boundary Road
Q8: 165th Street Terminal - Spring Creek-Gateway Mall or East New York-Euclid Avenue Station
Q9: 165th Street Terminal - South Ozone Park-Rockaway Boulevard
Q20A & Q20B: Jamaica-Merrick Boulevard - College Point
Q24: Jamaica-168th Street - Lafayette Avenue-Patchen Avenue
Q25: Jamaica LIRR Station - College Point-5th Avenue
Q30: Jamaica LIRR Station - Little Neck-Little Neck Parkway or Queensboro Community College
Q31: Jamaica LIRR Station - Bayside-27th Avenue-Francis Lewis Boulevard
Q34: Jamaica LIRR Station - Whitestone-149th Street
Q41: 165th Street Terminal - Howard Beach-164th Avenue
Q42: Jamaica Center - Addesleigh Park-Sayres Avenue
Q44 Select Bus Service: Jamaica - Bronx Zoo
Q54: Jamaica-170th Street - Williamsburg Bridge Plaza
Q56: Jamaica-170th Street - Broadway Junction-Van Sinderen Avenue
Q65: Jamaica LIRR Station - College Point-110th Street
Q83: Jamaica-Hillside-153rd Street - Cambria Heights-227th Street
Q84: Jamaica Center - Laurelton-238th Street
Q85: Jamaica Center - Green Acres or Rosedale-147th Avenue
Q110: Jamaica-Parsons-Hillside - Belmont Park-225th Street (UBS Arena)
Q111: Jamaica-Parsons-Hillside - Rosedale-147th Avenue
Q112: Jamaica-Parsons-Hillside - Ozone Park-Rockaway Boulevard Station
Q113 & Q114: Jamaica-Parsons-Hillside - Far Rockaway-Seagirt Boulevard
N4: Jamaica Center - Freeport LIRR Station

Fleets shown:
Orion VII 2nd Generation Hybrid
Orion VII Next Generation Hybrid
Orion VII 3rd Generation CNG
New Flyer XD40 Xcelsior
New Flyer XN40 Xcelsior CNG
New Flyer XD60 Xcelsior
New Flyer C40LF CNG
Novabus LFS
Gillig BRT+ CNG

0:00 - Intro
1:40 - Archer Avenue & Parsons Boulevard (Archer Avenue East Busway)
32:46 - Jamaica Avenue & Guy R. Brewer Boulevard (Jamaica Avenue Busway)
44:34 - Jamaica Avenue & 161st Street (Jamaica Avenue Busway)

LIRR Rolling Stock Shown:
Kawasaki M9
Kawasaki C3
EMD DE30AC
EMD DM30AC

Also, at 16:25, a scary moment. Always look where you're going when walking!

Q4, Q5, Q30, Q42, Q84 & Q85: Jamaica Depot
Q6, Q8, Q9 & Q41: JFK/Far Rockaway Depot
Q20A/B, Q31 & Q44-SBS: Casey Stengel Depot
Q83: Queens Village Depot
Q110, Q111, Q112, Q113 & Q114: Baisley Park Depot
Q25, Q34 & Q65: College Point Depot
Q24 & Q56: East New York Depot
Q54: Fresh Pond Depot

NOTES:
#8536 and #8656 shown on the Q31, are School Trippers from Queens Village Depot.
As #1918 passes, you'll see 2021 Prevost X3-45 #1532 in the background, which was recently delivered to Baisley Park for the QM21.
#205 is New Flyer's 4,000th CNG bus ever built.
An XD60 run the Q110 on rush hours and on game day trips to UBS Arena.
#6904 is one of 30 Old Gens left at Queens Village Depot (the most of any NYCTA/MaBSTOA Depot). There are only 9 of these buses left in Manhattan, though.
#2044 was an untrackable Gillig, and it's one of the 80 base order Gilligs that NICE now has. This fleet is quickly retiring the Orion VII Next Generation CNGs (#1700-#1799/#1800-#1839).

Engines: Cummins ISB/Cummins ISL9/Cummins L9/Cummins L9N
Transmissions: BAE Systems Hybridrive/Allison B400R/Allison B500R/ZF Ecolife 6AP1400B/ZF Ecolife 6AP1700B

Date taken: Thursday, December 17th, 2021.