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New York City Omnibus Corporation bus route (M16 - 13) replaced New York Railways' Eighth Street Crosstown Line streetcar on March 3, 1936. Designated the M13 until c. 1993, when the route was renumbered the M8. Weekend and overnight service was discontinued on June 27, 2010, due to budget crisis. [54] Weekend service was restored on April 6, 2014.
The routes were taken over on a staggered schedule, beginning with the former Liberty Lines Express bus routes on January 3, 2005, Queens Surface Corporation bus routes on February 27, 2005, New York Bus Service bus routes on July 1, 2005, Command Bus Company bus routes on December 5, 2005, Green Bus Lines bus routes on January 9, 2006, and ...
Portions of Broadway were once a part of a primary route of the Lenape people in Pre-Dutch New York. [1] In the 18th century, the principal highway to distant places was the Eastern Post Road . It ran through the East Side , and exited out of what was the northernmost point of Manhattan, in present-day Marble Hill .
The list of bus routes in New York City has been split by borough: List of bus routes in Manhattan; List of bus routes in Brooklyn; List of bus routes in the Bronx; List of bus routes in Queens; List of bus routes in Staten Island; There is also a list of express bus routes: List of express bus routes in New York City
[2] [3] Fixed-route buses are dispatched from 28 garages (20 New York City Bus and 8 MTA Bus) and one annex in New York City. Several fleet improvements have been introduced over the system's history. The first large order of air conditioned buses began service in 1966. [4] "
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 The company introduced new bus lines to replace the streetcar lines being withdrawn by the New York Railways Corporation in 1935/36, [2] which The Omnibus Corporation also ...
X- routes are operated by New York City Transit, while QM- routes are operated by MTA Bus Company. All Midtown routes except for the QM2, QM5 and QM20 Super Expresses operate nonstop outbound via the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, while Downtown routes operate via the FDR Drive and the Queens Midtown Tunnel.
The Post Road in New York. Transportation was used early on to support industry and commerce in the State of New York. The Boston Post Road, between what then the relatively small City of New York and Boston, began as a path to deliver the post using post riders (the first ride to lay out the Upper Post Road starting January 22, 1673), and developed into a wagon, or stage road in later ...