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Posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Feb 3 18:21:20 2020, in response to Brooklyn Bus Routes, posted by BusRider on Mon Feb 3 17:10:26 2020. I believe some of this is on Wikipedia.You really have to look at the bus and trolley route separately. There were about six trolley companies I believe. The only one I remember was Nassau Electric that operated the Church and Ocean Avenue trolleys among others. When bus companies started in the 1920s, there were about a half dozen of them also. The only one I remember is something like the East New York and Brownsville bus lines with operated the Pitkin Avenue Bus. Interestingly enough some of the early bus companies began operation as illegal vans. Early buses were small carrying about 20 passengers. When the Marine Parkway Bridge was built in 1937, Green Lines started operating the Q35. In the 1960's Pioneer started the B100 to Mill Basin which later became Command. That's about it for the private companies until they were taken over by the BQT over time. There were all sorts of operating and lease agreements which makes things complicated. I am not sure how the BQT became the BMT. In 1940, with the exception of Green Bus Lines, everything came under the operation of the BOT and then the NYCTA in 1953. In 2004, Green and Command were absorbed by the MTA. There were a few others over time like Apple or Big Apple, in the 1980s that operated one or two routes. There was one in Downtown Brooklyn to serve social security employees. Private Transportation still operates a route from Borough Park to Williamsburg since the 1970s, the B110. There are also buses between Sunset Park and Flushing. I also remember small buses on several routes operated by Nathan Private in the 1990s or before. One route ran on 49 and 50 Street and on Ocean Parkway to Avenue R. Don't know if it was legal or not. |
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