Atlantic Express (bus company)

Atlantic Express
	An Atlantic Express school bus operates through Oceanside, New York.
Parent	Atlantic Express Transportation Group
Founded	1964
Defunct	January 2014
Headquarters	7 North Street; Staten Island, NY

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route at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in June 2011.

Atlantic Express was an operator of transit buses,

Student Transportation of America, and the New York City-area Metropolitan Transportation Authority's bus division

(to which Atlantic Express had been a contractor).

Bankruptcy

In late 2013, Atlantic Express declared

Chapter 11 bankruptcy

. Part of the Bankruptcy was that Atlantic Express lost approximately 100 buses due to the devastating Superstorm Sandy on October 29, 2012. In order to help with replacing the damaged buses, Bird Bus Sales had a 100 bus emergency order that consisted of 100 2014 Blue Bird Visions that would be donated to Atlantic Express so they would not have to waste a single penny to pay for the buses.

In New York City, Atlantic Express operated two express bus routes under contract to the

Academy Bus

in bankruptcy proceedings, although most of the coach fleet was excluded from the sale.

Under the name

Spuyten Duyvil stations on the Hudson Line

. The Hudson Rail Link contract was awarded to Logan Bus Company in bankruptcy proceedings.

In addition to fixed route service, Atlantic Express also served approximately 104 school districts in five states with yellow school bus service, primarily in the Northeast. Atlantic Express at its peak had operations in twelve states, but had significantly downsized and had exited the mid-western and southwestern United States, and Florida well before its closure.

Many school bus providers took over the contracts and bought the buses that Atlantic Express had serviced following its bankruptcy filing. These companies are, but are not limited to:^{[citation needed]}

Adelwerth Bus Corp.
All American School Bus Corp.
Allied Transit Corp.
Baumann Bus Company
Bella Bus Corp.
Brooklyn Transportation Corp.
Consolidated Bus Transit
Educational Bus Inc.
Empire State Bus Corp.
L&M Bus Corp.
New Dawn Transit
Pride Transportation Services
Quality Transportation Corp.
Rainbow Transit
Suffolk Transportation Services

References

^ Atlantic Express overview Archived December 15, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

[1] Atlantic Express overview Archived December 15, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

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Bankruptcy

School bus service

References