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The R7 was created on November 21, 1964, the same day the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was opened, and ran across the bridge to provide service between Brooklyn and Staten Island, running between Fourth Avenue-95th Street and Clove Road-Victory Boulevard. A lot of patrons used the route on weekends for a scenic ride during the initial operation ...
[175]: 36 Some of the longest routes are in Staten Island, where the average bus line is 10.6 miles (17.1 km) long. The longest local bus route in the city, the S78, is 20.8 miles (33.5 km) long and spans the entire length of Staten Island. Brooklyn also has several long bus routes, and the borough hosts three of the city's ten longest routes.
Buses left Staten Island at 7:30, 7:45, and 8 a.m., and left Manhattan at 4:45, 5, and 5:15 p.m. [200] Became X10 in 1976; In September 1994, two non-revenue trips were converted to revenue trips, providing one reverse commute trip in the AM from Manhattan and on in the PM to Manhattan to serve the College of Staten Island. [201]
The depot was constructed in the late 1940s to provide urgently needed storage space for city-owned buses on Staten Island. [5] [6] When Isle Transportation went bankrupt in 1947, the city's Board of Transportation (predecessor of NYC Transit) took control of the majority of Staten Island bus operations.
Varsity Bus Company is a former school bus operator in New York City.This company was established in 2003 when it acquired some of the school bus routes that had been operated by Varsity Transit, a sister company that had operated from 1965 to 2003. [1]
North Shore (Staten Island); Current S40, S90 routes; former North Shore Branch of Staten Island Railway [117] [118] Industry City / Sunset Park – Linden – JFK (Brooklyn–Queens); B35 route and eastern portion of the B15 route (proposed as B55 SBS in Brooklyn bus redesign, but ends in Kensington instead of Sunset Park).
Atlantic Express #312 seen operating Staten Island bound on the X23 route at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in June 2011. Atlantic Express was an operator of transit buses, paratransit and school buses in the United States, specializing primarily in school bus service, while operating transit buses in New York City.
The following electric streetcar lines once operated in Staten Island, New York, United States. The first trip was on July 4, 1892, and the last was on January 26, 1934. The streetcar lines were mostly preceded by horse-car lines, and have generally been superseded by MTA Staten Island bus routes. [1] [2]