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The First and Second Avenues Line, also known as the Second Avenue Line, is a bus route in Manhattan, New York City, running mostly along Second Avenue (and northbound on First Avenue since 1951) from Lower Manhattan to East Harlem.
The first bus company in Manhattan was the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, which began operating the Fifth Avenue Line (now the M1 route) in 1886. When New York Railways began abandoning several streetcar lines in 1919, the replacement bus routes (including the current M21 and M22 routes) were picked up by the New York City Department of Plant and ...
First Avenue East 34th Street: M34 (EB) Both routes (WB) NYC Bus: M15, M15 SBS (all buses northbound only) 28th Street Second Avenue: Eastbound NYC Bus: M9, M15, M15 SBS (all buses southbound only) 23rd Street Second Avenue: NYC Bus: M9, M15, M15 SBS (all buses southbound only); M23 SBS. First Avenue VA Hospital
The primary First Avenue server is the M15/M15 Select Bus Service. It runs uptown from Houston Street to East 126th Street, while downtown buses use the parallel Second Avenue. [46] Other bus routes include the following: [46] The uptown M9 runs on it between East 20th and East 29th Streets, terminating at Bellevue Hospital at East 26th Street.
Select Bus Service (SBS; stylized as + select busservice) is a service provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Regional Bus Operations for limited-stop bus routes with some bus rapid transit features in New York City. The first SBS route was implemented in 2008 to improve speed and reliability on long, busy corridors.
The M15 local serves the entirety of Second Avenue south of East 126th Street. The M15 Select Bus Service, the Select Bus Service equivalent of the local M15 bus, provides bus rapid transit service along Second Avenue southbound. These two are the primary Second Avenue servers. Other bus routes include the following: [18]
The East Side Omnibus Corporation replaced the Second Avenue Line with the M15 bus route and the First Avenue Line with the M13 bus route on First Avenue on June 26, 1933. The routes were combined into a one-way pair on June 4, 1951 and kept the number M15. Limited stop service began on February 11, 1974. Today it is part of the M15 Select Bus ...
The M15 bus, which runs along much of the IRT Second Avenue Elevated Line's route, is one of the busiest bus routes in New York City. [9] However, it does not carry as many passengers as a rapid transit line, and transfers to rapid transit stations can only be made using surface connections.