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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.
The Far Rockaway Depot and the John F. Kennedy Depot (or JFK Depot) are garages that were operated by Green Bus Lines until January 9, 2006, [4] when MTA Bus took over and started operating the old company's bus routes. Both depots are now owned by GTJ Reit Inc (the successor to Green Lines), except for the newly built annex building at Far ...
The modern color-coded lollipop-shaped bus stop signs, which are used at all bus stops on New York City Bus-operated routes as well as at bus stops shared with MTA Bus routes and other companies, were first installed in November 1996 in Jamaica, Queens. [90] They were designed by W.S. Sign Design Corporation. [95]
#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 ...
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 ...
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 The company introduced new bus lines to replace the streetcar lines being withdrawn by the New York Railways Corporation in 1935/36, [2] which The Omnibus Corporation also ...
New York City Omnibus Corporation buses route (M23 - 5) replaced New York Railways' Sixth Avenue Line streetcar on March 3, 1936. New York City Omnibus Corporation buses route (M22 - 6) replaced New York Railways' Broadway Line streetcar on March 6, 1936. The routes were combined as a one-way pair on November 10, 1963, and kept the number 6.
Triboro Coach's final depot was located on a two-block long structure (85-01 24th Avenue) [4] bound by 85th and 87th Street, and 23rd and 24th Avenues in the East Elmhurst & Jackson Heights neighborhoods of Queens, New York near LaGuardia Airport. [31] The depot was opened on January 15, 1954, [4] at the cost of $1 million.