User:DanTD/Sandbox/North Shore Bus Company Bus routes/new version

The following is an attempt to reformat the list of bus routes previously owned by the North Shore Bus Company;

Old Version

 * Q1: Jamaica – Hillside Avenue – short lines (acquired from Bee Line)
 * Q2: Jamaica – Hollis Avenue – Hempstead Avenue to Belmont Park (from Bee Line)
 * Q3: Jamaica – Hollis – JFK airport via Farmers Blvd. (from Bee Line)
 * Q3A: Jamaica (Parsons Blvd. & Hillside Av.) – St. Albans – Cambria Heights via Murdoch & 113 Av. (renumbered 1988 to Q83 by NYCTA), (from Bee Line)
 * : Jamaica – Cambria Heights via Merrick & Linden Blvds. (from Bee Line)
 * Q4A: Jamaica – Laurelton via Merrick Blvd. & 120 Ave. (renumbered 1988 to Q84 by NYCTA) (from Bee Line)
 * Q5: Jamaica – Rosedale & Green Acres Shopping Mall via Merrick Blvd. (from Bee Line)
 * Q5A: Jamaica – Rosedale via Rochdale Village and Bedell Street. (renumbered 1988 to Q85 by NYCTA), (from Schenck Transportation)
 * Q5AB: Jamaica – Locust Manor LIRR – Springfield Gardens (combined with Q5A into Q85 in 1988 by NYCTA) (from Schenck Transportation)
 * Q5AS: Laurelton – Rosedale Shuttle (renumbered 1988 to Q86 by NYCTA, then eliminated in 1995 due to low ridership), (from Bee Line)
 * Q12: Flushing – Little Neck via Sanford Av. & Northern Blvd.
 * Q12A: Little Neck LIRR Station – Floral Park via Little Neck Parkway (renumbered to Q79 by NYCTA, then eliminated due to low ridership and reinstated via compromise as part of the extended Q36 in 2013) (1933)
 * Q13: Flushing – Bayside – Fort Totten via Northern & Bell Blvds. (1933)
 * Q14: Flushing – Whitestone (1933) (eliminated in 2010 due to budget cuts; subsequently replaced with the Q15A route)
 * Q15: Flushing – Whitestone – Beechhurst (1933)
 * Q16: Flushing – Clearview – Fort Totten via Bayside Avenue, Francis Lewis & Willets Point Blvds. or Utopia Pkwy. (1933)
 * : Flushing – 188 Street & Jamaica
 * Q17A: Jamaica – Little Neck via Utopia Pkwy & Horace Harding Blvd. (renumbered 1988 to Q30 by NYCTA)
 * Q17-20: Combination of Q17 and Q20 routes which operated in the 1940s and 1950s.
 * Q20: Flushing – College Point Shuttle (renumbered to Q44FS, then to Q20 in 1990, then to Q20A & Q20B in 1999 by NYCTA, and extended to Jamaica)
 * Q23: 108th Street, Corona-Ditmars Avenue (before 1933); originally North Shore, transferred first to Kings Coach Company (1931??), then to Triboro Coach Corporation in 1936?, then to MTA Bus Company in 2005
 * Q26: Flushing – Auburndale via Hollis Court Blvd.
 * Q27: Flushing – Rosewood – Queens Village & Cambria Heights via Springfield Blvd.
 * Q28: Flushing – Bayside West (before 1933)
 * Q31: Jamaica – Bayside West
 * Q35: Flushing – College Point – Whitestone; substitute for LIRR Whitestone Branch; replaced by Q20 in 1937.
 * Q32: Queens Village LIRR-Creedmoor shuttle.
 * Q36: Jamaica – Floral Park via Hillside & Jamaica Avenues.
 * Q42: Jamaica – Addisleigh Park via Sayres Av.
 * Q43: Jamaica LIRR Station – Hillside Av. to City Line.
 * Q44: Jamaica – Flushing – Bronx.
 * Q44A: Union Turnpike – Kew Gardens – Lake Success & Glen Oaks (renumbered 1990 to Q46 by NYCTA)
 * Q44B: Malba Shuttle (eliminated 1990 due to low ridership)
 * Q44VP: Union Turnpike – Kew Gardens & Vleigh Place Shuttle (renumbered 1990 to Q74 by NYCTA, then eliminated in 2010 due to budget cuts)
 * Q48: Flushing – LaGuardia Airport began operating April 5, 1940