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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.
[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.
#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 ...
In 2008, the bus operations of New York City Transit and MTA Bus Company (as well as the now former Long Island Bus division) were merged into a new regional operation, MTA Regional Bus Operations. The New York City Bus and MTA Bus brands continue to be used on all buses, but New York City Transit (NYCT), Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit ...
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 The company introduced new bus lines to replace the streetcar lines being withdrawn by the New York Railways Corporation in 1935/36, [ 2 ] which The Omnibus Corporation also ...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 ...
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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 ...