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Select Bus Service on the route began on July 13, 2015. [107] M96: New York City Department of Plant and Structures began operating bus (M6 – soon became NYCO's 19) on July 1, 1921. Operated by Green Bus Lines from 1933 to 1936, then taken over by New York City Omnibus Corporation on June 22, 1936. [105] Route M19 became M96 c. May 1993. M98
X- routes are operated by New York City Transit, while BM-routes are operated by MTA Bus Company. All routes operate nonstop between Brooklyn and Manhattan via the Gowanus Expressway or Prospect Expressway to the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, with some routes continuing non-stop via the FDR Drive to reach Midtown.
MTA Regional Bus Operations (RBO) is the surface transit division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). It was created in 2008 to consolidate all bus operations in New York City operated by the MTA.
The contactless OMNY fare payment system installed in 2019-2020 supports the same free transfers as the MetroCard does. Some paper transfers between specific subway stations and bus routes also existed prior to July 4, 1997, when the MetroCard allowed free system-wide subway–bus transfers with fewer restrictions.
MetroCard Vending Machine (MVM) The fares for services operated under the brands of MTA Regional Bus (New York City Bus, MTA Bus), New York City Subway (NYC Subway), Staten Island Railway (SIR), PATH, Roosevelt Island Tramway, AirTrain JFK, NYC Ferry, and the suburban bus operators Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) and Westchester County Bee-Line System (Bee-Line) are listed below.
On September 6, 2015, the MTA started a pilot program by the name of Bike & Ride. This pilot installed bike racks on the fronts of S53 and S93 buses, with each bike rack being able to accommodate two bikes. [16] [17] In 2017, the MTA released its Fast Forward Plan, aimed at speeding up mass transit services. [18]
[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]
Originally a streetcar line, it is now the M10 bus route and the M20 bus route, operated by the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority. The M10 bus now only runs north of 57th Street (near Columbus Circle), and the M20 runs south of 66th Street. The whole line was a single route, the M10, until 2000 when the M20 was created.