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Re: Tuscarora Almanac for December 17 |
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Posted by W.B. on Sun Dec 17 11:17:22 2017, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for December 17, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun Dec 17 07:38:57 2017. In the 1943 Third Avenue Transit System map of Bronx bus and trolley routes (dated Feb. 26), the Mount Vernon-Subway route was designated (Bx-)47. It does seem that that was part of the batch of routes listed that had not been converted to buses under STS operation in the 1947-48 period. There are some other routes which were listed by numbers on that map I have other questions of, and whether their bus conversion was under WST aegis and if so, when and by which letter (and as of 1973, Liberty Lines number):- Broadway-Yonkers (designated [Bx-]43) - Jerome Avenue (Bx-44) - Fifth Avenue (Mount Vernon) ([Bx-]46) The Jerome Avenue route is one I don't remember seeing amongst the 1947-48 bus conversions. Nor their 145th Street crosstown route in Manhattan - wouldn't that have been designated 107 if they issued a Manhattan trolley route map in 1943? (Given how the Bronx map had numbers for the streetcar routes despite the streetcars using letters or no designation?) Third Avenue Transit also loomed large on another December 17 in NYC transit history - in 1956, when it (along with its Surface Transportation Corporation of New York and Westchester Street Transportation Company, Inc., operating subsidiaries) was acquired by Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, Inc. FACL thereafter put Surface's six Manhattan and 42 Bronx bus routes under the aegis of a newly-created operating subsidiary they controlled, Surface Transit, Inc., and continued to run WST until the sale of its routes to Liberty Lines in 1969. |
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