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The Port Authority Bus Terminal (colloquially known as the Port Authority and by its acronym PABT) is a bus terminal located in Manhattan in New York City.It is the busiest bus terminal in the world by volume of traffic, [2] serving about 8,000 buses and 225,000 people on an average weekday and more than 65 million people a year.
New Greyhound bus terminal and old Penn Station, 1936. John D. Hertz started the Yellow Cab Company in 1915, which operated hireable vehicles in a number of cities including New York. Hertz painted his cabs yellow after he had read a study that identified yellow as being the most visible color from a long distance.
A pedestrian tunnel, maintained by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, links the bus terminal to the subway station. This tunnel is closed at night. [66] The bus station is also within walking distance of the 181st Street station of the same line, and the 181st Street IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line station on the 1 train. [64]
Construction on a new $10 billion Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan could begin at the end of this year — the long-awaited start of a project to reconstruct a 73-year-old facility that ...
The Broadway-Kingsbridge Line is a public transit line in Manhattan, running primarily along Broadway in Upper Manhattan.Originally a streetcar line, it is now the Bx7, Bx20 and M100 bus routes, all part of MTA Regional Bus Operations and operated by Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority under the New York City Transit brand.
The first bus company in Manhattan was the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, which began operating the Fifth Avenue Line (now the M1 route) in 1886. When New York Railways began abandoning several streetcar lines in 1919, the replacement bus routes (including the current M21 and M22 routes) were picked up by the New York City Department of Plant and ...
The 167th Street Crosstown Line, operated by the Third Avenue Railway, ran from Broadway and 181st Street (the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal did not exist at the time) east along it across the Washington Bridge, south on Edward L. Grant Highway, east along 167th Street, north on Webster Avenue, east along 168th Street, north on Franklin Avenue, east on 169th Street, continuing as it ...
The 175th Street station (also known as 175th Street–George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal) is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.Located in the Washington Heights neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, at the intersection of 175th Street and Fort Washington Avenue, it is served by the A train at all times.