Green Bus Lines
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Green Bus Lines was a bus company in New York City, United States, operating local service in Queens and express service to Manhattan until January 9, 2006, when the MTA Bus Company took over its routes.
The company was incorporated on April 3, 1925 to provide local service in several boroughs. It acquired several Manhattan routes (including the current M22, M27, M50, M79, M86, and M96) in 1933, but these were transferred to the Comprehensive Omnibus Corporation in 1935 and New York City Omnibus Corporation in 1936, and Green obtained new franchises in southeast Queens. Green also acquired the Manhattan and Queens Bus Corporation, which had operated the ex-Manhattan and Queens Traction Company Queens Boulevard Line into Manhattan since 1937, in 1943.
Green stockholders acquired several other companies that continued to operate independently: Command Bus Company, Triboro Coach Corporation, and Jamaica Buses.
The current QM23 was started in the 1950s to replace Long Island Rail Road service to the Brooklyn Manor station on the Rockaway Beach Branch. Four more express routes began operation in the 1970s.
Just prior to MTA Bus takeover, Green Bus lines operated the following routes, which continued to be based in Far Rockaway Bus Depot and John F. Kennedy Bus Depot[citation needed]:
- Q6 Sutphin Boulevard
- Q7 Rockaway
- Q8 101st Avenue
- Q9 Lincoln Street
- Q9A Linden Boulevard
- Q10 Lefferts Boulevard
- Q10A JFK Airport limited-stop
- Q11 Woodhaven Boulevard
- Q21 Cross Bay Boulevard
- Q22 Rockaway Beach
- Q22A Bayswater
- Q35 Marine Parkway
- Q37 111th Street
- Q40 142nd Street
- Q41 127th Street
- Q60 Queens Boulevard
- QM15 Lindenwood
- QM16 Rockaway Park
- QM17 Rockaway
- QM18 Lefferts
- QM23 Brooklyn Manor
[edit] References
- Green Bus Lines, Inc. (accessed January 19, 2007)
- NYCDOT - Privately Operated Bus Service (as of early-to-mid 2000s, accessed January 19, 2007)
- www.nycsubway.org: Local Bus Companies of Manhattan
