Queens Surface Corporation

Queens Transit Corporation redirects here. For the company that operated streetcars, mainly in Brooklyn, see Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation.

Queens Surface Corporation was a bus company in New York City, United States, operating local service in Queens and the Bronx and express service between Queens and Manhattan until February 27, 2005, when the MTA Bus Company took over the operations.

Queens Surface Corporation was privately held by the Burke family.[1] The Queens Surface Corporation facility was located at 128-15 28th Avenue (near the New York Times printing plant) in the College Point neighborhood of Queens.

Queens-Nassau Transit Lines began operating bus replacements for the New York and Queens Transit Corporation trolleys in 1937, and was renamed Queens Transit Corporation in 1957. Steinway Omnibus (changed to Steinway Transit in 1959) began operating buses over former Steinway Railway lines in the Fall of 1939, and the two companies merged in 1986 to form the Queens/Steinway Transit Corporation. The company was owned by the Salzberg scrap metal interests, which had ripped up the rails, until 1988, when the Linden Bus Company acquired the routes. Shortly thereafter and before operations commenced, Linden Bus Company changed its name to Queens Surface Corporation.

Just prior to MTA Bus takeover, Queens Surface operated the following routes that are now based in College Point Bus Depot.[2]

Queens local

Former Queens Transit Corp's Lines:

Former Steinway Transit Corp's Lines:

References

  1. ^ Chan, Sewell (2005-02-01). "City Will Pay $9.5 Million for Bus Line in Queens". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/nyregion/01bus.html. Retrieved 2010-01-22. 
  2. ^ Queens Surface Corp: Employment (via the Internet Archive)

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