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Posted by andy on Wed Sep 4 22:12:21 2019, in response to Fifth Avenue Coach Lines plan to buy NYCTA Manhattan routes, posted by Allen45 on Wed Sep 4 11:58:35 2019. When NY State created NYC Transit Authority in 1953, the new agency was required to come up with a plan for divesting itself, by 1955, of the bus divisions in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Queens. Apparently Fifth Ave. Coach tried to buy, through its subsidiary NYC Omnibus, the M11 and M15 routes. Surface Transportation, not yet part of Fifth Ave. Coach (that would occur in December 1956) tried to acquire the crosstown M1, M3, and M7 routes. Not sure what happened to the negotiations.The Queens private companies also tried to acquire the TA's Queens Division routes but also nothing became of that idea. As far as I know, the Brooklyn and Staten Island TA bus divisions did not attract any outside interest. It's all ironic because as things turned out, the opposite happened - Fifth Ave./Surface went out of business in 1962 and MABSTOA was created to operate its routes. That's another, long story. |
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