18-549: Green Bus may refer to: Green Bus Lines , in New York, U.S. Chiba Green Bus , Chiba Prefecture, Japan Kantetsu Green Bus , Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan The Green Bus , Birmingham, Great Britain Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Green Bus . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
36-406: A line running east into Patchogue , they were proposing a cross island trolley line, which was intended to run north through Bohemia , Lake Ronkonkoma , Saint James , Stony Brook , Setauket , East Setauket , and finally Port Jefferson . Beyond that it also planned to build lines through Nassau and Queens Counties, as part of their charter to connect to all the lines on Long Island, mostly along
54-716: The Great South Bay . The other ran from the station to Middle Road through Bayport then turned north Oakwood Avenue, then east along the south side of the Long Island Rail Road Montauk Branch onto Railroad Street which served Bayport LIRR Station . Railroad Street becomes Maple Street in Blue Point , and the trolley that ran along it turned north onto Blue Point Avenue where it momentarily connected to Blue Point station before reaching Montauk Highway . Their original plans were far more ambitious. Besides
72-676: The Manhattan and Queens Transit Company , was a streetcar company operating in Manhattan and Queens County, New York between 1913 and 1937. The Manhattan and Queens Traction Company was originally part of the South Shore Traction Company based in Sayville, New York . The company was established in 1903 as a horsecar service, and built two lines; both of which began at Sayville Railroad Station . One line ran from Railroad Avenue down to Montauk Highway and then to Candee Road towards
90-614: The Queens Boulevard Line . Other than this, it contained a short industrial track along Van Dam Street in Long Island City, and a slight extension south of Jamaica Station that was to be part of a never-completed southern extension. The last trolleys of the M&;QT ran in 1937. The company converted itself into the Manhattan and Queens Bus Corporation , running the line as the Q60 bus and
108-579: The MTA Regional Bus operations. The company reorganized as GTJ Reit Inc. , a real estate investment trust, shortly after MTA takeover. The company was incorporated on April 3, 1925, by William Cooper and Martin Klein to provide local service in certain boroughs. Cooper originally began operating a single bus line, a portion of today's Q8 101-Jerome Avenue route, in 1922. The company was formed from several independently-operated bus lines, whose owners operated
126-690: The Manhattan and Queens Transportation Company. The main line of the M&QT was that line along the Queensboro Bridge, but it was expanded into Woodside , Elmhurst , Forest Hills , and finally Jamaica by 1914. The terminus in Jamaica was largely due to trackage rights with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit subsidiary known as the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad . This was officially known as
144-814: The South Shore. As part of the effort to do so, it acquired and operated a line across the Queensboro Bridge from Manhattan to Long Island City . However, it was unable to break through the monopoly of the LIRR-held lines in Nassau County such as the New York and Long Island Traction Company , as well as local litigation. The railroad sold off its original two lines to the Suffolk Traction Company , and moved to Long Island City in 1912, re-chartering themselves as
162-636: The buses, and would become stockholders and employees in Green Lines. The company acquired several Manhattan routes (including M22, 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. That year, Green Lines took over the operations of Liberty Bus, and the borough's bus system was divided into four lettered "zones", with each zone being served exclusively by one bus company. Green Lines
180-708: The following routes, which mostly continued to be based in Far Rockaway Bus Depot and John F. Kennedy Bus Depot . Hubs for Green Lines operations included 165th Street Bus Terminal in Jamaica, the Mott Avenue subway station in Far Rockaway, and several stations on the IND Queens Boulevard Line . Green Bus Lines' first southeast Queens depot (also known as Cornell Park) was located at 149th Street and 147th Avenue (148-02 147th Avenue) in what
198-420: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green_Bus&oldid=1190918812 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Green Bus Lines Green Bus Lines , also referred to as Green Lines ,
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#1733092903267216-535: The neighborhood of Arverne . It was sometimes referred to as the "Rockaway Garage". A satellite facility, it primarily housed buses serving the Rockaways and southern Queens, performing light maintenance work. It is now MTA Bus' Far Rockaway Depot. 40°35′35″N 73°46′47″W / 40.592950°N 73.779614°W / 40.592950; -73.779614 Manhattan and Queens Traction Company The Manhattan and Queens Traction Company , also known as
234-495: The passenger and cargo areas of John F. Kennedy International Airport . At the time of its closure, Green Lines operated more local and limited bus routes than any other private company in the city. Stockholders of Green Bus Lines also held control of other private bus companies in Queens and Brooklyn as Transit Alliance . These companies were Triboro Coach , Jamaica Buses , and Command Bus Company , all of which were absorbed into
252-566: The routes that had been previously operated by Pioneer Bus Corporation, which went out of the transit bus business following a bitter strike earlier in 1979. The QM23 was started in the 1950s to replace Long Island Rail Road service to the Brooklyn Manor station on the Rockaway Beach Branch . It was discontinued in 2010. Four more express routes began operation in the 1970s. Just prior to MTA Bus takeover, Green Bus lines operated
270-633: Was a private bus company in New York City. It operated local service in Queens and express service to Manhattan until January 9, 2006, when the city-operated MTA Bus Company took over its routes. It was managed most recently by Jerome Cooper (1928–2015). Green Bus Lines routes primarily operated in the Jamaica , Ozone Park , Howard Beach , South Jamaica , and the Rockaways areas of Queens, along with service to
288-809: Was awarded the rights to all of "Zone C" in southern Queens, which included Woodhaven , Richmond Hill , Ozone Park , Howard Beach, and the Rockaways. With that move, Green Lines assumed the operations of seven other companies in the region. Green also acquired the Manhattan and Queens Bus Corporation, which had operated the ex- Manhattan and Queens Traction Company Queens Boulevard Line into Manhattan (the Q60 ) since 1937, in 1943. Green stockholders acquired two other transit companies that continued to operate independently: Triboro Coach Corporation in October 1947, and Jamaica Buses in April 1949. Jointly these three companies formed Command Bus Company in 1979 to take over
306-575: Was built from 1951 to 1952 at the cost of $ 500,000. It was the primary storage and maintenance facility for the company. It is now the John F. Kennedy Depot (or JFK Depot) of MTA Bus. 40°39′41″N 73°46′26″W / 40.661348°N 73.773916°W / 40.661348; -73.773916 Green Lines operated a facility on the Rockaway Peninsula , situated on Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 49th Street (49-19 Rockaway Beach Boulevard) in
324-464: Was then South Ozone Park, Queens . The facility, which contained an office building and a bus garage, opened in May 1939 at a cost of $ 250,000. This area has since been de-mapped and is now on the grounds of John F. Kennedy International Airport . Green Lines' second southeast Queens garage was located in Jamaica at 147th Avenue and Rockaway Boulevard (165-25 147th Avenue) near JFK Airport . The depot
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