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The Straphangers Campaign is a New York City-based transit interest group that advocates on behalf of riders of public transport. The organization is part of the NYPIRG (New York Public Interest Research Group). The Straphangers Campaign's main spokesperson and staff attorney is Gene Russianoff.
The MTA Regional Bus Operations bus fleet is a fleet of buses in fixed-route service in New York City under the "MTA New York City Bus" (also known as New York City Transit or NYCT) and "MTA Bus" brands, both of which operate local, limited, express and Select Bus Service routes.
The division comprises two brands: MTA Bus and MTA New York City Bus. While MTA Bus is an amalgamation of former private companies' routes, MTA New York City Bus is composed of public routes that were taken over by the city before 2005, except the SIM23 and SIM24 which were taken over in 2022.
WikiProject New York City Public Transportation is a project to better organize information in articles dealing with mass transit in New York City and its surrounding areas. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.
[170] [171] [172] The depot was originally the New York headquarters and bus garage for Greyhound Lines. Ground broke on the facility on April 26, 1966. [173] It was designed by De Leuw, Cather, and Associates and built by Turner Construction. [173] It was sold to the New York City Transit Authority in 1996.
[42] [43] With the addition of unlimited-ride MetroCards in 1998, the New York City Transit system was the last major transit system in the United States, with the exception of BART in San Francisco, to introduce passes for unlimited bus and rapid transit travel. [44]
The Broadway-Kingsbridge Line is a public transit line in Manhattan, running primarily along Broadway in Upper Manhattan.Originally a streetcar line, it is now the Bx7, Bx20 and M100 bus routes, all part of MTA Regional Bus Operations and operated by Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority under the New York City Transit brand.
An 1807 grid plan of Manhattan. The history of New York City's transportation system began with the Dutch port of New Amsterdam.The port had maintained several roads; some were built atop former Lenape trails, others as "commuter" links to surrounding cities, and one was even paved by 1658 from orders of Petrus Stuyvesant, according to Burrow, et al. [1] The 19th century brought changes to the ...