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Re: Tuscarora Almanac for September 21 |
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Posted by W.B. on Fri Sep 21 11:50:18 2018, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for September 21, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Fri Sep 21 11:12:10 2018. Re. the Avenue C-Desbrosses Street Ferry route (as it was known then), Hamilton was replaced as operator sometime between 1933 and 1935 by affiliated entity Triangle Bus Corporation; it was Triangle whom NYC Omnibus replaced in 1940, at which point it was essentially combined with another Triangle route, M-40 - South Street, to create Rt. 21; in so doing, part of the latter route which went to South Ferry was abandoned. (The 22 - Pitt and Ridge Streets line which NYC Omnibus also started up in 1940, bore a franchise number of M-45 as which it had been held by Triangle but may not have been started under their aegis as such. At the time of the 1962 strike against Fifth Avenue Coach Lines and Surface Transit and the City's revocation of those franchises, The New York Times listed the Rt. 21 franchise as 'M-40 - Houston Street, Avenue C' which suggests this to have been a mashup of that and M-10. One of these days I shall provide a list of Manhattan franchise numbers as I have researched them.)Green Bus Lines had taken over M-1 Madison-Chambers and M-2 Spring-Delancey in 1933, and while the latter went to NYCO in 1936, the former wound up in the hands of Comprehensive Omnibus in 1935 - the same firm which, along with East Side Omnibus, later sold their routes to the Board of Transportation in 1948. Also, the 'M' prefices began showing up on former FACCo and NYCO routes (including M12 and M21) around January 1973 - the point at which MaBSTOA's allotment of T6H-5309A's and 5310A's began hitting the road. Front and side roll signs tell that tale. |
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