Comprehensive Omnibus Corporation

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Comprehensive Omnibus Corporation was a bus operator in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was an affiliate of East Side Omnibus Corporation, organized in 1933, one year after the East Side company, by the same people. It operated three routes, all crosstown, two of which were taken over from Green Bus Lines when GBL was given franchises in Queens.

Comprehensive and East Side Omnibus were coordinated in their transfer policy with New York City Omnibus Co., all three companies exchanging transfers among their routes, even though Comprehensive and East Side were entirely independent in ownership from NYCO.

Both Comprehensive and East Side went bankrupt in 1948, and their routes were taken over by New York City, operated by the Board of Transportation (which later became a State operation, the New York City Transit Authority).

[edit] Routes

The following routes were operated by Comprehensive Omnibus Corp:

Franchise Number	Current Number	Route Name	Previous bus operator	Previous streetcar operator
M1	M22	Madison-Chambers Crosstown	Green	(never a streetcar)
M3	M27	49th-50th Sts. Crosstown	Green	(never a streetcar)
	M50
M7	M66	66th St. Crosstown	(none)	(never a streetcar)