About Those Tee Shirts/Route Numbers

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Tue Sep 5 12:37:51 EDT 2000


On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, John Swindler wrote:

> 36/37/38/39/40 are Banksville Road corridor services
> 
> 41/42/43/44/45 are West Liberty Ave. corridor services
> 
> 46/47/48/49/50 are Saw Mill Run corridor services
> 
> It was an attempt to bring some sort of order out of a very messy and 
> cumbersome situation.  For instance, with West Liberty routes, 41 is local 
> route to "Golden Triangle", 43 would be an express, and 42 is a "through" or 
> limited or ???? service.  44 would be a local bus, and 45 would be local 
> service in outlying community.

Mr. Galt gave me part of a Bus World(I think) article which explains the
bus numbering system, presumably on the same basis but with knowledge of
what had transpired.

I think this was ca. 1976

-D







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