- Triboro Coach
Triboro Coach Corporation was a
bus company inNew York City ,United States , operating local service inQueens and express routes toManhattan untilFebruary 20 ,2006 , when theMTA 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 onSeptember 24 ,1936 it acquired a city franchise for nine routes in northwestern Queens (the "Long Island City zone" [New York Times , [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0B10F83C58107A93C6A9178AD85F428385F9 Long Island City Zone Taken by One Bus Line] ,January 4 ,1936 , page 17] ). AfterWorld War II , Triboro was acquired by the stockholders ofGreen Bus Lines , after financial difficulties, but continued to operate independently. Major expansions were made in 1956 between Woodside and Rockaway Park (replacing theLong Island Rail Road 'sRockaway Beach Branch , out of service since 1950) and in 1961, when it acquired the Q72 (then the B72) from theNew 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. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/19990125104039/www.triborocoach.com/ Triboro Coach Corporation] (via theInternet Archive )]Just prior to MTA Bus takeover, Triboro Coach operated the following routes that are now based in
LaGuardia Bus Depot Fact|date=February 2007:;Queens local
*Q18 30th Avenue
*Q19 Astoria Boulevard
*Q23 108th Street (acquired in 1936 fromNorth Shore Bus Company )
*Q29 80th Street (acquired in 1936 fromKings Coach Company )
*Q33 82nd Street (acquired in 1936 fromMunicipal Motorbus Company )
*Q38 Eliot and Penelpoe Avenues (acquired in 1936 fromAffiliated Bus Transit Corporation )
*Q39 Forest Avenue (acquired in 1936 fromNational City Bus Lines )
*Q45 69th Street
*Q47 74th Street
*Q49 (Formerly Q19B) 35th Avenue
*Q53 Woodside - Rockaway Park (limited stop) (established in 1956)
*Q69 (Formerly Q19A) 21st Street
*Q72 Junction Boulevard (acquired in 1961 fromNew York City Transit Authority );Express
*QM10 LeFrak City - Midtown
*QM11 LeFrak City - Wall Street
*QM12 Forest Hills
*QM22 Jackson Heights
*OM24 Glendale
*QM24W RidgewoodReferences
* [http://www.triborocoach.com/ Triboro Coach Corporation] (accessed
January 19 ,2007 )
* [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/masstran/buses/bushist.html NYCDOT - Privately Operated Bus Service] (as of early-to-mid 2000s, accessedJanuary 19 ,2007 )
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