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November 3rd 1965-NYCT creates its first express bus route

 
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 6:20 pm    Post subject: November 3rd 1965-NYCT creates its first express bus route Reply with quote

On this date in 1965 New York City Transit created its first express bus route the R8x. This route linked Staten Island with Downtown Brooklyn. The R8x was discontinued in the late 1980's.
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W.B. Fishbowl



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wouldn't this route have been known, after 1975-76, as X8? I know the 'R' prefix was attributable to Staten Island, pre-1975, being officially known as the Borough of Richmond . . .
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