Triboro Coach
Triboro Coach Corporation was a bus company in New York City, United States, operating local service in Queens and express routes to Manhattan until February 20, 2006.
Salvatore Fornatora began operating buses in Queens since 1919, with his first route connecting 103rd Street-Corona Plaza on the recently-opened Corona Line in Corona with Flushing. The Corona terminal was moved to Astoria in 1928, when the Corona Line was extended to Flushing, and the company (then the Woodside-Astoria Transportation Company) was also operating several other routes in the Astoria-Woodside-Maspeth area by 1930.
The new Triboro Coach Corporation was incorporated on April 10, 1931, and on September 24, 1936 it acquired a city franchise for nine routes in northwestern Queens (the "Long Island City zone"[1]). After World War II, Triboro was acquired by the stockholders of Green Bus Lines, after financial difficulties, but continued to operate independently. Major expansions were made in 1956 between Woodside and Rockaway Park (replacing the Long Island Rail Road's Rockaway Beach Branch, out of service since 1950) and in 1961, when it acquired the Q72 (then the B72) from the New York City Transit Authority. Five express routes to Manhattan were initiated in the 1970s and 1980s: the QM10 in 1970, QM11 in 1971, QM12 in 1975, and QM22, QM24, and QM24W in June 1988.[2]
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Just prior to MTA Bus takeover, Triboro Coach operated the following routes that are now based in LaGuardia Bus Depot[3]:
- Q18 Astoria - Maspeth, via 30th Avenue
- Q19 Astoria - Flushing, via Astoria Boulevard
- Q23 108th Street (acquired in 1936 from North Shore Bus Company)
- Q29 80th Street (acquired in 1936 from Kings Coach Company)
- Q33 82nd/83rd Street to LaGuardia Airport's Central Terminal (acquired in 1936 from Municipal Motorbus Company)
- Q38 Eliot and Penelope Avenues (acquired in 1936 from Affiliated Bus Transit Corporation)
- Q39 Long Island City - Ridgewood, via Forest Avenue (acquired in 1936 from National City Bus Lines)
- Q47 (includes former Q45) 69th Street to LaGuardia Airport's Marine Air Terminal
- Q49 (Formerly Q19B) 89th/90th Street, via 35th Avenue
- Q53 Woodside - Rockaway Park (limited stop) (established in 1956)
- Q69 (Formerly Q19A) 21st Street & Ditmars Blvd.
- Q72 Junction Boulevard (acquired in 1961 from New York City Transit Authority)
- QM10 Midtown Manhattan - LeFrak City
- QM11 Forest Hills - LeFrak City - Wall Street
- QM12 Midtown Manhattan - Forest Hills, via Yellowstone Blvd.
- QM22 (now discontinued) Midtown Manhattan - Jackson Heights
- OM24 Midtown Manhattan - Ridgewood - Glendale via Eliot Av
- QM25 (Formerly QM24W) Ridgewood via Eliot Av - Wall Street
[edit] References
- Triboro Coach Corporation (accessed January 19, 2007)
- NYCDOT - Privately Operated Bus Service (as of early-to-mid 2000s, accessed January 19, 2007)
- ^ New York Times, Long Island City Zone Taken by One Bus Line, January 4, 1936, page 17
- ^ Triboro Coach Corporation (via the Internet Archive)
- ^ Triboro Coach Corporation; Contact Information (via the Internet Archive)
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