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Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for January 14th |
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Posted by W.B. on Mon Jan 14 10:07:51 2019, in response to Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for January 14th, posted by andy on Mon Jan 14 09:28:38 2019. Ya want irony? Here's another irony. At the time the old NYCO Division #4 was eliminated it was based out of 146th Street depot - and #2, at 100th. In 1964 #2 was transferred to 146th where it remained to its 1969 demise, and the new M-101A that replaced it north of 116th was based out of - 100th Street! (Reading accounts of the 1960 Third and Lexington conversions, apparently only #2 got extended to 146th and Lenox at the time; #1 didn't go up there "via 135th Street" until 1963-64.)As well, the old NYCO Division #3 was basically replaced on that 1960 day when Third and Lexington became one-way by that "short-turn" M-101 between 125th and 23rd Streets that you'd mentioned in your book, driven by Fifth Avenue Coach drivers on buses marked Surface Transit and assigned out of 100th Street. (It was also the second "short-turn" M-101 variant, another in operation at the time of Surface Transit and Westchester Street Transportation's October 1958 route map only ran between 96th and 6th Streets.) Another thing: That 1969 elimination of #2 - Fifth-Madison-Lenox was plotted as far back as 1967. A July 14 transcript from that year in the same MaBSTOA proceedings book cited in this Almanac, detailed their intention to eliminate the #2 and - guess what? - salvage its route north of 116th Street to create a "new" branch of the #101 - Third and Lexington Avenues line. But when the Fifth and Madison one-way conversions took effect, initially #2 had more buses per hour in peak and non-peak hours than #2A (again, per the OA horses' mouths). I.I.N.M., it was 4-minute headways in peak hours and 6-minute headways non-peak for #2, and 6-minute headways at peak and 8 minutes non-peak for #2A. It'd be interesting if anybody saved any MaBSTOA timetables for this combo, or if each branch had an individual timetable. |
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