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Posted by Gotham Bus Co. on Sun Mar 11 10:20:15 2007, in response to MaBSTOA..., posted by error46146 on Sun Mar 11 09:50:50 2007. That's the Manhattan And Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority...It was the 1962 version of MTA Bus Company, except that it took over only one company (Fifth Avenue Coach). By design, it was kept separate from the existing NYCTA and outside the civil service system, for one or both of the following reasons: - as an allowance for eventually selling MABSTOA to a private-sector buyer (as if that were ever going to happen); - as a way to protect the jobs of Fifth Avenue Coach's illegal Irish immigrant employees who, by definition, would be ineligible for civil service jobs. Even into the 1980's, the NYCTA ("TA") and MABSTOA ("OA") fleets and personnel had to be kept separate at all times and at all costs. No TA bus could ever be moved to an OA depot, or vice versa, without unions filing massive grievances. Then suddenly somebody decided to scrap that rule and move not only buses but some staff as well. Now you'll find TA general superintendents in charge of OA bus garages, OA analysts in the Department of Subways, and so forth. Basically, MABSTOA still exists on paper, but only as a bookkeeping entry. |
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