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Command operated the following routes, which after the MTA takeover continued to be operated out of the [[Spring Creek Bus Depot]]:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20000606214031/http://www.commandbus.com/|title=Internet Archive Wayback Machine|date=6 June 2000|publisher=}}</ref>
Command operated the following routes, which after the MTA takeover continued to be operated out of the [[Spring Creek Bus Depot]]:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.commandbus.com/ |title=Internet Archive Wayback Machine |date=6 June 2000 |publisher= |deadurl=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000606214031/http://www.commandbus.com/ |archivedate=June 6, 2000 }}</ref>
;[[List of bus routes in Brooklyn|Brooklyn local]]
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*'''B100''' Kings Highway station, via Fillmore Av - Mill Basin Local
*'''B100''' Kings Highway station, via Fillmore Av - Mill Basin Local

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Varsity Bus Company
Varsity Bus Company #1099 deadheads through Brooklyn.
Headquarters626 Wortman Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11208
LocaleNew York City
Service typeSchool bus service
Chief executiveAndrew Brettschneider

Varsity Bus Company is a school bus operator in New York City, currently providing yellow school bus service. This company was established in 2003 when it acquired some of the school bus routes that had been operated by Varsity Transit (other school bus companies acquired the remaining school bus routes, and Varsity Transit thereafter ceased operations).

From 1979 until 2005, Varsity Transit affiliate Command Bus Company operated two local and seven express transit bus routes, routes that are now operated by MTA Bus Company. Varsity Transit and Command Bus Company were 40-percent owned by Green Bus Lines, 40-percent owned by Triboro Coach, and 20-percent owned by Jamaica Central Railways. Varsity Bus Company is owned by former executives of Green Bus Lines.

Command Bus

Command Bus traces its history to Pioneer Bus Corporation, established in 1954 by three small school bus and charter bus operators.[1] Until 1960, when it obtained a franchise for the current B100, it only operated school, charter, and racetrack buses.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

Bus routes

A Command Bus bus before takeover by MTA Bus. This bus is now MTA Bus #744.

Command operated the following routes, which after the MTA takeover continued to be operated out of the Spring Creek Bus Depot:[2]

Brooklyn local
  • B100 Kings Highway station, via Fillmore Av - Mill Basin Local
  • B103 Canarsie - Downtown Brooklyn Limited Stop Service (Formerly Downtown Brooklyn Express before MTA Bus)
Brooklyn-Manhattan express
  • BM-1 Mill Basin/Bergen Beach - Manhattan Express
  • BM-2 Canarsie - Manhattan Express,
  • BM-2S Starrett City - Manhattan Express, via Flatlands Av
  • BM-3 Kingsbay - Manhattan Express
  • BM-4 Gerritsen Beach - Manhattan Express (Formerly operated by Erin Tours until end of 1989)
  • BQM-1 (Now BM-5) East New York, Spring Creek/Starrett City - Manhattan Express

In the mid-1990s, Command operated "Gotham Flyer" service, using unfilled buses to carry express passengers between Midtown and Wall Street.

Fleet

  • 1986 GM RTS-04/06
  • 1988-89 MCI Classic TC40-102A
  • 1994 TMC RTS-06 CNG
  • 1998 ORION V CNG

References

  1. ^ "Green Bus Lines, Inc., Triboro Coach Corporation, Jamaica Central Railways, Inc". sec.gov. GTJ Reit, Inc. February 9, 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". 6 June 2000. Archived from the original on June 6, 2000. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)