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Posted by W.B. on Sat Sep 13 09:14:14 2025 September 13, 1954 - The Book of First Runs Manhattan, New York Surface Transportation Corporation of New York 30 new buses - GMC "Old Look" TDH-5106's numbered 1060-1089 (serial numbers 0070-0099) - enter service in Manhattan and the Bronx on this date. These buses will be renumbered 3260-3289 by MaBSTOA in 1963, and remain in service through circa 1970 under their aegis, and up to circa 1972 after they are transferred to the Transit Authority for service in the outer boroughs. At the time, it was announced that 25 new buses would enter service soon afterwards. It would turn out to be 10 Mack C-49-DT's, numbered 2990-2999 (serial numbers 1006-1015), which will enter service in October. These will be renumbered 4990-4999 in 1963 and remain in service until 1967. (It wouldn't be for another two years until more Macks enter STS service.) (Sources: "Private Line to Use 30 New Buses Today," The New York Times, September 13, 1954; "Surface Transportation System - Manhattan and the Bronx," Motor Coach Age, March 1970.) September 13, 1963 - The Book of Route Service Changes Brooklyn, New York New York City Transit Authority BMT Bus Division With the conversion of Bergen Street to one-way westbound, Route B-65 - Bergen Street is rerouted east on Dean Street. (Source:: Motor Coach Age, June-July 1975 - article by Bernard Linder, route history by Donald W. Harold and Mr. Linder.) September 13, 1965 - The Book of First Runs Queens, New York New York City Transit Authority Queens Bus Division A new service, Q77 - Francis Lewis and Springfield Boulevards, is launched. It runs from 175th Street and Hillside Avenue to Springfield and Merrick Boulevards via Hillside Avenue, Francis Lewis Boulevard and Springfield Boulevard. (Source: Motor Coach Age, April-May 1977.) September 13, 1976 - The Book of First Runs Manhattan, New York New York City Transit Authority Manhattan Bus Division A new limited-stop service is inaugurated on the M15 - First and Second Avenues line. This service will only make 15 stops between 126th and Houston Streets, shortening travel time by as much as 23 minutes. These limited-stop buses (such stops will be marked accordingly, and such buses will be identified with a sign on the lower right windshield) are to run weekdays every six minutes, southbound between 7:12 and 9:21 A.M., and northbound between 4:12 and 6:11 P.M. (Source: "To Speed You On Your Way . . . " New York City Transit Authority, 1976.) September 13, 1987 - The Book of Deaths John A. Moreland, former president of Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, Inc. from 1960 until 1962, dies at age 93 in River Edge, NJ. A World War I-era veteran who served in the New York State National Guard at the time of the 1916 Mexican uprising, Mr. Moreland joined Fifth Avenue Coach Company in 1910 as an apprentice mechanic, served for years as vice-president in charge of maintenance, was named a director in 1954 and vice-president and general manager in 1959; he had been president of FACL since the death of longtime president John E. McCarthy in June 1960. It was during Moreland's time as FACL president that the company (and its Surface Transit subsidiary) took delivery of the last-ever buses (100 TDH-5301 "New Look" buses - 3111-3160 assigned to FACL, 3161-3210 assigned to ST) made for the company; but most of the time he and the company were fighting off a hostile takeover bid from Harry S. Weinberg, which took a massive toll on FACL's finances; after Weinberg took over FACL in 1962, Moreland, executive vice-president Stephen C. Duggan and chairman Howard S. Cullman all retired. In his later years, Mr. Moreland served as a parishioner of St. Peter the Apostle R.C. Church in River Edge, and was a director for Catholic Big Brothers. He is survived by a son, a sister, 10 grandchildren and 14 great-children. (Source: Obituaries section, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.), September 14, 1987; "Ex-Apprentice Mechanic Named Fifth Avenue Coach President," The New York Times, June 24, 1960.) |
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