Triboro Coach

Triboro Coach

Triboro Coach Corporation was a bus company in New York City, United States, operating local service in Queens and express routes to Manhattan until February 20, 2006.

Salvatore Fornatora began operating buses in Queens since 1919, with his first route (today's Q19 route) connecting 103rd Street-Corona Plaza on the recently-opened Corona Line in Corona with Flushing. The Corona terminal was moved to Astoria in 1928, when the Corona Line was extended to Flushing, and the company (then the Woodside-Astoria Transportation Company) was also operating several other routes in the Astoria-Woodside-Maspeth area by 1930.

The new Triboro Coach Corporation was incorporated on April 10, 1931 running the Q18 and Q24, and on September 24, 1936 it acquired a city franchise for nine routes in northwestern Queens (the "Long Island City zone"). After World War II, Triboro was acquired by the stockholders of Green Bus Lines, after financial difficulties, but continued to operate independently. Major expansions were made in 1956 between Woodside and Rockaway Park (replacing the Long Island Rail Road's Rockaway Beach Branch, out of service since 1950) and in 1961, when it acquired the Q72 (then the B72) from the New York City Transit Authority. Five express routes to Manhattan were initiated in the 1970s and 1980s: the QM10 in 1970, QM11 in 1971, QM12 in 1975, and QM22, QM24, and QM24W in June 1988.

Just prior to MTA Bus takeover, Triboro Coach operated the following routes that are now based in LaGuardia Bus Depot:

Queens local

• Q18 Astoria - Maspeth, via 30th Avenue (Formerly Q18 Astoria-Woodside and Q24 Woodside-Maspeth; combined into Q18)
• Q19 Astoria - Flushing, via Astoria Boulevard
• Q23 East Elmhurst - Forest Hills via 108th Street (acquired in 1936 from North Shore Bus Company)
• Q29 Jackson Heights - Middle Village via 80th Street (acquired in 1936 from Kings Coach Company)
• Q33 Jackson Heights - LaGuardia Airport Central Terminal (acquired in 1936 from Municipal Motorbus Company) via 82nd/83rd Streets
• Q38 Eliot and Penelope Avenues (acquired in 1936 from Affiliated Bus Transit Corporation)
• Q39 Long Island City - Ridgewood, via Forest Avenue (acquired in 1936 from National City Bus Lines)
• Q47 (includes former Q45) Middle Village - LaGuardia Airport Marine Air Terminal via 69th Street and 80th Street
• Q49 (Formerly Q19B) Jackson Heights - East Elmhurst via 35th Avenue
• Q53 Woodside - Rockaway Park (limited stop) (established in 1956)
• Q69 (Formerly Q19A) Long Island CIty - Woodside via 21st Street & Ditmars Blvd.
• Q72 LaGuardia Airport - Rego Park via Junction Boulevard (acquired in 1961 from New York City Transit Authority)

Express

• QM10 Lefrak City Express via 6th Avenue or 3rd Avenue
• QM11 Forest Hills - LeFrak City - Wall Street
• QM12 Forest Hills Express via 6th Avenue or 3rd Avenue
• QM22 Jackson Heights Express via 6th Avenue or 3rd Avenue (discontinued under MTA Bus)
• QM24 Glendale Express via 8th Avenue or 3rd Avenue
• QM24W Glendale - Wall Street Express (now QM25)

Former routes

• Q45 Jackson Heights - Juniper Valley via 69th Street (merged with Q47 in 2011)