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Many of these facilities are former streetcar carhouses that were gradually converted to trackless trolley and bus use, although some like Southampton (built 2004) are of recent construction. Of the former streetcar carhouses, only Arborway and Watertown were Green Line yards during part of the MBTA era.
A bus and trolley at the West Terminal in June 1968. On February 2, 2016, SEPTA opened a new West Terminal at the station, serving multiple bus routes and the 101 and 102 trolley lines. The $19.6 million project brought new tracks and pavement, new platforms and ramps to the terminal building, as well as a green roof and eco-friendly LED lighting.
The facility became the location of the company's central repair shop in 1947 when the 65th Street Shops closed. [76] In 1948, Third Avenue's central repair shop was moved again to a facility in Yonkers, [76] while the Kingsbridge Depot ceased serving trolleys and began serving buses in 1948. [5] [62] In 1962, it was acquired by the MaBSTOA. [5]
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
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The Rosa Parks Hempstead Transit Center is an intermodal center and transportation hub in Hempstead, New York.It contains the Nassau Inter-County Express bus system's indoor customer facility between Jackson and West Columbia Streets – as well as the terminus for the Hempstead Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located right across West Columbia Street from the bus terminal.
It operates a fleet of 1,396 buses, serving 115 million rides at over 8,000 bus stops in 2012, making it the eighth-largest transit agency in the United States. [1] [2] The agency has seven bases spread throughout its 2,134-square-mile (5,530 km 2) operating area [3] [4] and has 131 park and rides for commuters. [2]
In the late 1650s, the name "Jamaica" first appears on maps for the area of Roxbury between Stony Brook and the Great Pond. There are a number of theories regarding the origin of the name "Jamaica Plain". A well-known theory traces the origin to "Jamaica rum", a reference to Jamaican cane sugar's role in the Triangle Trade of sugar, rum, and ...