http://web.mta.info/mta/news/books/pdf/170123_1030_Transit.pdf
1. M79 Implementation (Pages 117-121)
Implement M79 Select Bus Service (SBS) on 79th Street in Manhattan replacing M79 local service at all times. The M79 SBS will continue to operate at all times. Service frequencies will initially remain unchanged as well. An initial 10% reduction in running time will be factored into the schedule as service speed is expected to increase in line with other SBS routes. Additionally some time points will be eliminated to have service operate as fast as possible. This will result in an increase of $1.73 million in the annual operating budget.
Proposed Date: Spring 2017
2. Q52 Extension (Pages 122-126)
To provide improved transit connectivity for the dense residential areas of Arverne and Edgemere in the Rockaways in Queens, and respond to community requests for additional transit service, extend the Q52 east from its current terminus at Beach 67th Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard to a new southern terminus at Beach 54th Street and Beach Channel Drive.
Beach 54th Street at Beach Channel Drive is within the center of the Ocean Bay Apartments complex, which has approximately 1,800 units, and is owned by the City of New York and operated by the NYC Housing Authority. The Ocean Bay Apartments is also located between, but not immediately adjacent to, the Beach 60th Street and Beach 44th Street A train stations. The extended Q52 would also provide service, via a proposed bus stop at Beach 59th Street and Arverne Avenue, to Arverne View, an approximately 1,100-unit apartment complex; Nordeck, an approximately 400-unit apartment complex; the newest section of the Arverne-by-the-Sea development; and a cluster of lower density residential buildings between Beach 67th and Beach 59th Streets between Rockaway Beach Boulevard and the ocean.
This extension would provide a more convenient transit connection between these neighborhoods and northern and central Queens, a trip that currently requires 1-2 transfers using buses and/or subways. The only current transit service to this area is the Q22 local bus service, which remains on the Rockaway peninsula between Far Rockaway and Roxbury, and the A train, which travels through Howard Beach and Ozone Park, Queens, but then west to Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The extension would precede implementation of an SBS in order to gain the benefits of the extension as early as possible. The route extension would lengthen the Q52 travel path by approximately 0.9 miles in each direction. From the area of its current last stop on Rockaway Beach Boulevard at Beach 69th Street, the south/eastbound Q52 from Elmhurst would continue east on Rockaway Beach Boulevard, turn north on Beach 62nd Street, east on Arverne Boulevard, north on Beach 54th Street to the last stop on Beach 54th Street at Beach Channel Drive, which would also be utilized as a layover. Conversely, the north/westbound Q52 to Elmhurst would make its first stop on Beach Channel Drive at Beach 54th Street, continue west on Beach Channel Drive, south on Beach 59th Street, west on Rockaway Beach Boulevard, and then it would resume the route of the current westbound Q52 from Beach 67th Street to Elmhurst, Queens, as shown in the attached Map. All current Q52 trips would be extended. One bus stop in each direction would be added at the intersection of Beach 59th Street and Arverne Boulevard.
Two new stops will be added, one at the 
stop at B. 60 Street, and another on Beach Channel Drive & B. 54 Street. The stop at Rockaway Beach Boulevard & B. 69 Street will be discontinued. This change will result in an increase of $510,000 in the annual operating budget.
Proposed Date: April 2017