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W.B.'s Bus Almanac for July 17th |
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Posted by W.B. on Tue Jul 17 06:13:33 2018 July 17, 1960 - The Book of Last Runs and Route Modifications Manhattan, New York Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, Inc. - NYCO and FACO Divisions Surface Transit, Inc. Third Avenue and Lexington Avenue are converted into one-way thoroughfares. Third Avenue between 24th and 128th Streets is now northbound, and Lexington Avenue between 131st and 21st Streets southbound. Several bus changes are implemented as a result: - The 3 - Lexington Avenue and 4 - Lexington and Lenox Avenues bus routes are discontinued. Both had been originally run by the New York City Omnibus Corporation starting in 1936, and since 1956 had been administered under the NYCO Division of Fifth Avenue Coach Lines. - The M-101, previously Third Avenue only, will now travel north on Third Avenue up to 125th Street, and south on Lexington Avenue between 125th and 23rd Streets; its description will now become "Third, Lexington and Amsterdam Avenues." - The 2 - Fourth and Madison Avenues (via Madison Avenue) line is extended to 146th Street and Lenox Avenue (via 116th Street) to compensate for the demise of the 4. (The 1 - Fourth and Madison Avenues [via Park Avenue] line still terminates north at 135th and Madison at this juncture; it is not until March 1, 1964 that this route will be extended to 146th and Lenox via 135th Street.) (NOTE: That the 2 will be so extended after the demise of one route would be especially ironic given that, on March 2, 1969, the by-then Fifth-Madison-Lenox route will itself be discontinued and its route north of 116th and Lenox salvaged for and incorporated into the newly-created M-101A Third, Lexington and Lenox Avenues line.) Peripherally affected by these changes is the FACO Division's 15 - Jackson Heights line, Queens-bound buses of which are rerouted northbound from Lexington to Third Avenue between 57th and 59th Streets. (Sources: "One-Way Bus Schedules Given for Lexington and 3d Avenues," The New York Times, July 12, 1960; "Here's How Buses Will Go Thataway on 3d and Lex.," Daily News [New York], July 12, 1960.) |
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