BusTalk

Today's Newsday (maybe behind a paywall for you) has a lengthy article about Cuomo telling Suffolk County to invest in electric buses, at about $900,000 per bus.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/t ...

I was only a ten-year-old at the time, but my recollection is that the motorman became drivers on the same routes. Many welcomed the soft seat (instead of the streetcar paddle). Yes, a few did not tra ...

I call attention to the recent fiscal problems of Wrightbus, which manufactured many Routemasters at their factory in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. I think the Wikipedia article on Wrightbu ...

Many thanks for the helpful clarification.
Joe

Grand Concourse & Fordham, circa-1970; note the circular "BUS STOP" sign, that, even then, was a bit of relic......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155562

(courtesy: nycsubway. ...

This article from 1925 might explain the NYPD's vintage favor of arrow signs:

https://www.roadtrafficsigns.com/traffic-control-signs-shapes-history

Here's another view (1944) of TARS Garden Avenue yard; note prewar TWIN on left; also, the "BUS STOP" sign........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116916

(courtesy: nycsubway.org) ...

kdr3bt:

You might be interested in these vintage "CLUB TRANSPORTATION" buses....... Wink

"NYO"

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153549

https://www.nycsubway.org/p ...

Memory can be tricky. More than once, Dad brought me on the full length of the Union City route northbound. I recall a derail a short distance before the left-hand curve at the bottom of the hill. The ...

Are you implying that double wire hung over Pershing Road?
Joe

You talk speculations.
In late 1940, the cessation of service on the Hoboken trestle miffed me, grieved me terribly. Had someone speculated that articulated cars would crawl and loop from the south ...

And below is another description of the TARS cars on five routes in Vienna, not just the single route I mentioned.

http://www.austrianinformation.org/fall-2015/the-americans-in-vienna
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Joe:

Appreciate the information. Wink

I always found it interesting how TARS streetcar operations were converted to buses in "stages"; the first to go entirely over to buses were th ...

Eons prior to the formation of MaBSTOA, there was TARS; this handsome deck-roof convertible* is seen here (Fordham Rd/Southern Boulevard) sporting the once-commonplace maximum traction trucks......
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It is lucky that a typescript of Vincent Seyfried's roster of the Third Avenue Railway System (TARS) found its way to the University of Michigan. Google has provided a free copy! The search tool (cont ...