The Beginnings of Public Transportation in Greene County
THE BEGINNINGS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN GREEN COUNTY
Pictured above is a Mountain View Coach Line bus from a 1930 advertisement in "The Examiner", a former Greene County newspaper. The picture was published in the Daily Mail on May 14, 2014.
The information below was pulled out of Field Horne's book, "The Greene County Catskills : A History", that is on the shelf at Vedder Research Library in Coxsackie.
- 1915 Henry J. Albright's Mountain View Coach Lines - 1st motorized bus service, Coxsackie to Albany
- 1916 There were extra passengers to the Coach Line so Henry's wife followed behind in a car
- 1926 Albright did 3 runs daily to Albany joined by 6 small companies.
- 1920's boarding houses had their own vehicles to meet trains and boats, some were still horse drawn
- 1927 1st trip, early summer NYC to Catskill Auto Bus
Roads
1909 Road travel state highway program - amendment to an 1898 highway law numbered 5 routes in Greene County as part of a statewide system
- River road (State Route 3)
- Catskill to Delaware (County Route 5A)
- Cairo to Albany (County Route 5B)
- Palenville to Haines Falls (County Route 5C)
- Schoharie to Grand Gorge passing through Prattsville (Route 38)
- "1st road" Catskill to South Cairo extended to Durham by 1914
- Route 9W was built 1931