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Andy's Almanac - March 23 |
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Posted by andy on Sat Mar 23 11:27:18 2019 March 23, 1962:After a three-week strike, partial bus service resumes on the Manhattan and Bronx routes formerly operated by Fifth Avenue Coach and Surface Transit. In February 1962 a new ownership group had taken control of Fifth Avenue/Surface, and promptly provoked a strike by laying off 29 light duty employees in violation of the existing contract between the Transport Workers Union and the bus company. NYC’s government, which was opposed to the new ownership group, responded by seizing the buses and garages by condemnation, and creating (with NYS help) a new public agency, MABSTOA, to operate the bus lines. By a week later, March 30, service was running normally on all but two of the former Fifth Avenue/Surface routes that became MABSTOA. |
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