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Posted by W.B. on Tue Jul 17 14:27:05 2018, in response to Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for July 17th, posted by andy on Tue Jul 17 11:55:03 2018. It would appear that the post-one way conversion M-101 was basically a merger by FACL of the pre-conversion M-101 with the NYCO Division's 3 - Lexington Avenue, given this structure of which drivers handled the route at what points. I had read something (probably in your book) to the effect that after the conversions, M-101 was handled by FACL drivers between 23rd and 125th Streets, and ST drivers on each end, thus a FACL-ST hybrid with ST flagging. (I'm sure a small few in that period, especially after late 1960, were among the "new" TDH-5301's in the 3170 range that were allotted to Amsterdam depot.) Into the 1980's, I remember riding on M101 (and some M102) buses where drivers changed at Third and 23rd - but more notable on southbound runs than northbound. This may've been a byproduct of that 1960 arrangement. Would it have been from that point that M-101 was "split" between Amsterdam and 100th Street depots, as it was at the time MaBSTOA took over all the FACL and ST routes, up to 1965 when it went to 100th solely?During the 1962 FACL-ST strike that led to the MaBSTOA takeover, The New York Times, in their listings of Surface Transit routes out of service, had listed M-101 as two routes, Third-Amsterdam and Third Avenue between 6th and 96th Streets. This was evidently based on the October 1958 ST route map, given this 23rd-125th variant route (which I've also seen on late 1970's front roll signs split between red and blue on one). I've read in Google Books, snippets of transcripts of MaBSTOA proceedings from between 1962 and 1967, and the roots of the 2 Fifth-Madison-Lenox' demise took place on July 14, 1967, when they floated the idea of eliminating that route and salvaging the part of the route north of Lenox and 116th to create a "branch" of the M-101 Third-Lexington route - but it was nearly two years, as we know, before that plan was implemented and M-101A came into being. Again, I find it ironic, not to mention coming full circle. At the time NYCO Division's 3 and 4 were eliminated, they were both based out of 146th Street depot, while 2 was out of 100th Street. But in 1969, 2 (and Fifth-Madison-Seventh 2A, which MaBSTOA had merged with the ex-NYCO 2 at the time of the 1966 Fifth and Madison one-way conversions into one route with two "branches," Seventh and Lenox - hard to believe, but that's how MaBSTOA saw it and operationally ran it) were stationed at 146th Street - and the new M-101A was, like the main M-101, out of 100th Street. |
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