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Can't find the page 25 that you refer to.

Thanks guys. From your responses, it looks lik no one knows for sure. The only thing is that I think Nassau County kept the buses, whether legally or illegally. Remember reading that the buses were ...

At the time f the creation of NICE, there was an issue of ownership of certain of the buses. How did this work out? Did some of them in fact belong to the MTA and were they returned to them or were t ...

Wa the Port Chester and White Plsins Bus Company part of Westchester Street Transportation Company (Surface Transit System) or Westchester Surface Ways? Or by the way, was Westchester Surface Ways par ...

Dear Frankie,

Re your photos; they're great photos. However, the first one is somewhere in Nassau County, perhaps Sunrise Highway; note the LIRR right of way with the power transmission towers.
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Isn't the ownership of the buses a bone of contention? I remember reading on this forum that the MTA owned the new Orion VII's that title documents show ownership by the MTA and not Nassau County. A ...

So who will continue to operate the buses? The MTA?

Any update on the MTA LI Bus fiasco? Or are we going to go up to the New Years deadline again for news.

Thanks guys for the information. It is deeply appreciated.

Knew there was Fifth Avenue Coach, Surface Transit, NY Omnibus Company and Avenue B & East Broadway. Now I'm seeing names like Omnibus Coach Company and Madison Omnibus Company, etc. Can somebod ...

If the MTA gives up LI Bus, there is no Regional Bus, there's only NYC Transit and MTA Bus which only serve NYC, except for 2 short MTA Bus runs (1) Bx-M 3 which goes about a mile into Yonker and (2) ...

Jay Walder apparently says that the responsibility for bus service outside of New York City rests with each county. Well, there is an operation within the MTA, MTA Regional Bus. If what he says is t ...

13C was part of the take over legislation. That guaranteed the PVBL employees would continued to be employed by MTAB. In this case, the people would be going from a public agency to a private emplo ...

The other bus companies were owned by the Cooper family. Again, their exiting the picture cost the MTA and consequentially the taxpayers a bundle. But the people of Queens and parts of Brooklyn now ...

With the private lines in NYC, really the only one that was run efficiently and provided excellent service was NY Bus Service. The others were in very poor shape. But anyway, thanks for the info. A ...