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Varsity Bus Company
Varsity Bus Company #1099 deadheads through Brooklyn.Headquarters 626 Wortman Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11208Locale New York City Service type School bus service Chief executive Andrew Brettschneider Web site Varsity Bus Varsity Bus Company is a school bus operator in New York City, currently providing yellow school bus service. This company was established in 2003 when it acquired some of the school bus routes that had been operated by Varsity Transit (other school bus companies acquired the remaining school bus routes, and Varsity Transit thereafter ceased operations). From 1979 until 2005, Varsity Transit affiliate Command Bus Company operated two local and seven express transit bus routes, routes that are now operated by MTA Bus Company.
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Command Bus
Command Bus traces its history to Pioneer Bus Corporation, established in 1954 by three small school bus and charter bus operators. Until 1960, when it obtained a franchise for the current B100, it only operated school, charter, and racetrack buses. Several express buses were implemented in 1972. Command Bus Company was incorporated October 22, 1979 following a long strike at Pioneer.
Like sister companies Green Bus Lines, Jamaica Buses, and Triboro Coach Corporation, Jerome Cooper was the chairman of the board. Originally co-housed with Varsity Transit, the operations of Command were eventually moved into a new NYCDOT facility at 12755 Flatlands Avenue in Brooklyn (this garage is now leased by MTA Bus following the transfer of Command Bus Company routes to MTA Bus in 2005).[1]
Command routes
Command operated the following routes, which after the MTA takeover continued to be operated out of the Spring Creek Bus Depot[citation needed]:
- B100 Fillmore
- B103 Canarsie Limited
- Express
- BM1 Mill Basin
- BM2 Canarsie
- BM3 Sheepshead Bay
- BM4 Gerritsen Beach
- BM5 (formerly BQM1) Starrett City
In the mid-1990s, Command operated "Gotham Flyer" service, using unfilled buses to carry express passengers between Midtown and Wall Street.
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Categories:- Bus transportation in New York City
- Companies established in 1954
- School bus operators
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