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Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 22nd |
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Posted by W.B. on Tue Apr 23 11:21:14 2024, in response to Re: W.B.'s Bus Almanac for April 22nd, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Mon Apr 22 16:43:10 2024. It would seem that the route situation was more in MaBSTOA's original organization. They had inherited the old FACO Division, NYCO Division and Surface Transit Division monikers, and student bus passes each had different designs for students traveling on "former Fifth Avenue lines," "former New York City Omnibus lines," and of course those of Surface. (This, from recent eBay auctions.)I think it was around 1973 that MaBSTOA was basically reorganized, with the aforementioned division designations eliminated and new divisions, Manhattan Division and Bronx Division, created - and routes of the three heretofore separate divisions consolidated and unified. It no doubt took the front roll signs created for the new T6H-5309A's ordered (with M prefices showing up for the first time on former FACCo and NYCO routes) to show how deep the route duplication was, especially in Manhattan. Although they also ended up duplicating route numbers of "private" companies as well - notably Green Bus Lines' QM15 and QM16 route designations (which MaBSTOA had applied to the Fifth Avenue/Jackson Heights and Elmhurst Crosstown routes, respectively). Oddly, when the 1974 route renumbering took place (side roll signs printed as early as April, though it didn't become official until July 1), one strangely enough wasn't - the ex-FACCo M10 Broadway pull-in/pull-out route between "135 St Only" and 168th Street, given the more prevalent ex-NYCO Eighth Avenue/Central Park West line of the same designation. However, that upper Manhattan "drop-off only" route (which never figured in any bus maps or even route dispatchers' maps) was eliminated altogether by 1976. |
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