Triboro Coach
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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, when the MTA Bus Company took over its routes.
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]
Just prior to MTA Bus takeover, Triboro Coach operated the following routes that are now based in LaGuardia Bus Depot[citation needed]:
- Q18 30th Avenue
- Q19 Astoria Boulevard
- Q19A 21st Street
- Q19B 35th Avenue
- Q23 108th Street (acquired in 1936 from North Shore Bus Company)
- Q29 80th Street (acquired in 1936 from Kings Coach Company)
- Q33 82nd Street (acquired in 1936 from Municipal Motorbus Company)
- Q38 Eliot (acquired in 1936 from Affiliated Bus Transit Corporation)
- Q39 Forest (acquired in 1936 from National City Bus Lines)
- Q45 69th Street
- Q47 74th Street
- Q53 Woodside - Rockaway Park (limited stop) (established in 1956)
- Q72 Junction (acquired in 1961 from New York City Transit Authority)
- QM10 LeFrak City - Midtown
- QM11 LeFrak City - Wall Street
- QM12 Forest Hills
- QM22 Jackson Heights
- OM24 Glendale
- QM24W Ridgewood
[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)
