page_title: Bus depots of MTA Regional Bus Operations
section_title: College Point Depot
hierarchical_section_title: Bus depots of MTA Regional Bus Operations / Queens Division / College Point Depot
caption_attribution_description: Pay loaders from MTA New York City Transit Buses await transfer from the College Point Depot on lowboy trucks. Nine are being sent to Suffolk County to assist with snow clearing operations, each being escorted with supervision and operators.
context_page_description: MTA Regional Bus Operations operates local and express buses serving New York City in the United States out of 29 bus depots. These depots are located in all five boroughs of the city, with one located in nearby Yonkers in Westchester County. 21 of these depots serve MTA New York City Transit's bus operations, while the remaining eight serve the MTA Bus Company. These facilities perform regular maintenance, cleaning, and painting of buses, as well as collection of revenue from bus fareboxes. Several of these depots were once car barns for streetcars, while others were built much later and have only served buses. Employees of the depots are represented by local divisions of the Transport Workers Union of America, particularly the TWU Local 100 and 101, or of the Amalgamated Transit Union's Local's 726 for all depots in Staten Island, 1056 for Casey Stengel, Jamaica, and Queens Village Depots, and 1179 for JFK & Far Rockaway Depots.
context_section_description: The College Point Depot is located on 28th Avenue near Ulmer Street in the College Point section of Queens (40.773378°N 73.840804°W), near the printing plant of The New York Times, the former site of Flushing Airport, and directly behind the headquarters of Queens Surface on land owned by New York City. The depot stores around 250 buses. Construction on the $43 million project began in 1993. The depot was supposed to be completed by spring 1996, but was delayed to October 1997 because the general contractor for the project quit the job. As of June 1996, the project was 60% completed. In August 1996, the electrical contractor stopped work on the project due to a contract dispute with the NYCDOT. The depot opened on October 31, 1997, a year ahead of a previous estimate. The depot increased the number of its wash bays from 1 to 3, and doubled the company's repair bays to 24. It was built with space for 275 uses and 400 cars. This was the first CNG fueling station to be built by and owned by the city. It is owned by the New York City Department of Transportation and leased to MTA Bus. It had been leased to Queens Surface Corporation before the lease was taken over by MTA Bus. Many buses under Queens Surface used compressed natural gas, and all local bus service from this depot operates using CNG provided by Trillium CNG. In 2006, a unified command center for MTA Bus Company was established at the depot. Also, plans are underway to modify this depot to accommodate articulated-buses in the very near future.
  In 2015, this depot housed the buses used on the following routes:
  Local Routes: Q19, Q23, Q25, Q34, Q38, Q65, Q66. The Q25, Q34, Q65, and Q66 had been Queens Surface routes, while the Q19, Q23 and Q38 (former Triboro Coach routes) had operated from the LaGuardia Depot.
  Express Routes: BxM9 (rush hours shared with Eastchester), QM1, QM2 (shared with Eastchester), QM3, QM4, QM5, QM6, QM7, QM8, QM10, QM11, QM12, QM20, QM31, QM32 (shared with Eastchester), QM35, QM36, QM40, QM42, QM44
caption: Pay loaders and New Flyer CNG buses at the College Point Depot.
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