Varsity Bus Company is a former school bus operator in New York City. This company was established in 2003 when it acquired some of the school bus routes that had been operated by Varsity Transit, a sister company that had operated from 1965 to 2003. Varsity ceased operations by the 2010s, and the headquarters of Varsity were later used by Total Transportation and L&M Bus Corp.
Varsity Bus Company #1099 deadheads through Brooklyn.
U.S. Energy Secretary John S. Herrington driving a Command Orion I CNG-powered bus in 1988.
A Command Bus bus before takeover by MTA Bus. This bus became MTA Bus 744.
MTA Regional Bus Operations
MTA Regional Bus Operations (RBO) is the surface transit division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). It was created in 2008 to consolidate all bus operations in New York City operated by the MTA. As of February 2018, MTA Regional Bus Operations runs 234 local routes, 71 express routes, and 20 Select Bus Service routes. Its fleet of 5,840 buses is the largest municipal bus fleet in the United States and operates 24/7. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 730,924,600, or about 2,309,600 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2023.
An early livery for the NYC Transit Authority
The early 1970s livery, using a blue base. This bus, a Flxible New Look, is operating in special holiday service in 2008.
A typical vehicle, an MCI cruiser, used in express bus service. This example wears the livery used from 1977 until 2016.
A MTA Bus Orion VII Old Gen on the Q100 Limited, this route used to be part of Queens Surface Corporation as the Q101R, till MTA takeover in 2005
