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On This Day in 1960 (July 17th) . . .

 
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 9:05 am    Post subject: On This Day in 1960 (July 17th) . . . Reply with quote

. . . major changes came to the bus scene at both Third and Lexington Avenues, as the former between 24th and 128th Streets was converted to one-way northbound, and the latter all the way to 131st Street to one-way southbound. To wit:

- The NYCO Division's two routes along Lexington, 3 - Lexington Avenue and 4 - Lexington and Lenox Avenues - were discontinued.
- Surface Transit's M-101 was rerouted southbound to Lexington Avenue between 125th and 23rd Streets.
- A new short-run branch of the M-101 was created, essentially a replacement for/renumbering of NYCO's #3, running between 125th and 23rd Streets; it was driven by Fifth Avenue Coach Lines drivers out of 100th Street depot, on ancient 'Old Look' buses in the 4000's that were marked as 'Surface Transit Inc.'
- To fill the void of the 4's demise, NYCO Division's 2 - Park Avenue South/Madison Avenue line was extended to 146th and Lenox, thus Harlem residents transferring to or from M-101, depending on what direction they were going, had to walk two or three blocks. (After the 1966 Fifth and Madison one-way conversions, they would have to walk three blocks in all directions to get from one to the other; alas, also with no paper transfers after 1962, thus putting a bigger hole in such residents' pockets.) Eventually, on March 2, 1969, this #2 (which had been merged with FACCo's #2 - Fifth and Seventh Avenues line in 1966 and then both were split into different "branches," with the ex-NYCO route becoming the "Lenox Avenue branch") would be discontinued and replaced with a "new" route, M-101A - Third, Lexington and Lenox Avenues ("new" insofar as north of 24th Street it was a de facto revival of the old NYCO #4 route, only travelling north along Third; this is the branch that, in 1974, became M102).
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