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[156] [157] [158] The depot was originally the New York headquarters and bus garage for Greyhound Lines. Ground broke on the facility on April 26, 1966. [159] It was designed by De Leuw, Cather, and Associates and built by Turner Construction. [159] It was sold to the New York City Transit Authority in 1996.
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 modern color-coded lollipop-shaped bus stop signs, which are used at all bus stops on New York City Bus-operated routes as well as at bus stops shared with MTA Bus routes and other companies, were first installed in November 1996 in Jamaica, Queens. [90] They were designed by W.S. Sign Design Corporation. [95]
A corresponding bus crisis was not covered as heavily in the media, but in November 2017, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer identified several causes for the bus system's unreliability. [ 180 ] [ 181 ] The average speeds of New York City buses were found to be 7 to 8 miles per hour (11 to 13 km/h), [ 180 ] the slowest of any major bus ...
The B20 and B83 constitute bus routes between Broadway Junction and East New York, running primarily on Pennsylvania Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City.They are operated by the New York City Transit Authority, with the B20 being based out of the Fresh Pond Depot and the B83 being based out of the East New York Depot.
The New York City Omnibus Corporation was formed in 1926 with John A. Ritchie as President. [1] Richie was also president of The Omnibus Corporation founded a year earlier. The company introduced new bus lines to replace the streetcar lines being withdrawn by the New York Railways Corporation in 1935/36, [2] which The Omnibus Corporation also ...
#621 (built 1979) was a "Fishbowl" bus built by General Motors of Canada and one of ten such buses used in New York City until the 1990s. [30] #3006 (built 1988) was a "Classic" bus operated by Liberty Lines Transit and used from 1982 to 2006. #1502 (built 1982) was a "New Look" bus. The 25 buses were operated by New York Bus Service. These ...
#1502, now in the museum fleet of the MTA A mobile classroom in lower Manhattan in February 1990. New York Bus Service was a private bus company in New York City. Originally a school bus company founded in the mid-1940s, it was known for providing express bus service between Midtown Manhattan and eastern sections of the Bronx from 1970 until July 1, 2005, when the city (MTA) assumed the ...