A fun fact about NYC's buses: many of the routes are turn-by-turn replicas of previous streetcar routes; Brooklyn alone had dozens[1]. The B46[2], for example, follows the Utica-Reid line as it ran until 1951.
They never actually tore up most of these lines; the city just paved over them. You can see them poking through the pavement whenever the city redoes the roads.
They never actually tore up most of these lines; the city just paved over them. You can see them poking through the pavement whenever the city redoes the roads.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_streetcar_lines_in_Bro...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B46_(New_York_City_bus)