Orion V 545

Location: Main Street at Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, NY
Operator of Vehicle: MTA New York City Transit
Date of Photo: June 27, 2003

June 29, 2025 was a major day for bus network redesigns.  On this single day, Winnipeg, Canada, WMATA, TheBus, and to an extent Ride On in the Washington, DC area, and Queens, NY (and maybe elsewhere, too, but those are the ones I am aware of) all implemented new bus networks.  In “honor” of the occasion, I posted about the now former L2 route in DC last month, so I thought for this month I should shift the focus to somewhere else.  I don’t have so many photos of buses in Queens, but I did find this one from 2003.  The Q15 still exists post redesign phase one, but with some minor rerouting, and a new limited stop Q61 also parallels portions of its route.  However, the Orion V pictured here won’t be operating on any of the revised routes as it was retired from the New York City bus fleet in the mid-2010s.

For more photos of MTA New York City Transit Orion Vs, please click here.