QTC Garage 1981 - Ikarus test - Orange Yellow Splendor

In November 1981 Queens Transit tested a Hungarian made Ikarus articulated bus (type 280?). In this film we see some driver training in the depot yard, now the site of MTA Bus College Point Depot. Once known as Queens-Nassau, MTA Bus took over Queens Transit in 2005. The company had two busy routes between College Point/Whitestone-Flushing and Jamaica (Q25/34 and Q65), plus a Woodside-Flushing route over Northern Blvd (Q66), Jewel Ave (Q65A), the Long Island City - Middle Village route (Q67), the Co-op City - Flushing (QBx1) and numerous express routes between northeast Queens and Manhattan. There was a modest charter business as well, which was legally problematic for a company that was accepting government subsidies for both Capital and Operating expenses.