Green Bus Lines

Green Bus Lines was a bus company in New York City, United States, run by Mr. Jerome Cooper, operating local service in Queens and express service to Manhattan until January 9, 2006, when the MTA Bus Company took over its routes.

The company was incorporated on April 3, 1925 to provide local service in several boroughs. It acquired several Manhattan routes (including the current M22, M27, M50, M79, M86, and M96) in 1933, but these were transferred to the Comprehensive Omnibus Corporation in 1935 and New York City Omnibus Corporation in 1936, and Green obtained new franchises in southeast Queens. Green also acquired the Manhattan and Queens Bus Corporation, which had operated the ex-Manhattan and Queens Traction Company Queens Boulevard Line into Manhattan since 1937, in 1943.

Green stockholders acquired several other companies that continued to operate independently: Command Bus Company, Triboro Coach Corporation, and Jamaica Buses.

The current QM23 was started in the 1950s to replace Long Island Rail Road service to the Brooklyn Manor station on the Rockaway Beach Branch. Four more express routes began operation in the 1970s.

Just prior to MTA Bus takeover, Green Bus lines operated the following routes, which mostly continued to be based in Far Rockaway Bus Depot and John F. Kennedy Bus DepotFact|date=February 2007:;Queens local
*Q6 Sutphin Boulevard
*Q7 Rockaway Boulevard
*Q8 101st Avenue
*Q9 Lincoln Street
*Q10 Lefferts Boulevard Limited
*Q11 Woodhaven Boulevard
*Q21 Cross Bay Boulevard
*Q22 Rockaway Beach
*Q35 Newport Avenue and Flatbush Avenue (Brooklyn)
*Q37 111th Street
*Q40 142nd Street
*Q41 127th Street
*Q60 Queens Boulevard
*Q89 (Formerly Q9A) Linden Boulevard;Express
*QM15 Lindenwood
*QM16 Rockaway Park
*QM17 Rockaway
*QM18 Lefferts
*QM23 Brooklyn Manor

References

* [http://www.greenbus.com/ Green Bus Lines, Inc.] (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, accessed January 19, 2007)
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060517154428/http://www.nycsubway.org/bus/busroutes.html www.nycsubway.org: Local Bus Companies of Manhattan]