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Motor Coach Service to Doylestown

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It wasn’t until the early 1920s that asphalt was used on town and city surfaces. Roads in towns began to be paved and streets improved. Traffic lights, curbing, sidewalks and motor coach service soon followed:
• In 1925 the Blue Bell Auto Bus provided public transport from North Main Street five times a day between Doylestown and Bristol as well as between Doylestown and Lambertville with connections to Trenton.
• In 1926, bus service operated by the Doylestown & Easton Motor Coach Company (in cooperation with Philadelphia Rural Transit Company) also initiated regular service through Doylestown. Passengers were picked up and discharged at the Bucks County Inn on Main Street. As many as nine buses northbound for Easton passed through Doylestown daily, making intermediate stops at Danboro, Plumsteadville, Pipersville, and seven other towns enroute. Ten daily coaches carried passengers southbound to Willow Grove, Jenkintown and Philadelphia (connecting with the Philadelphia Union Terminal, Reading Terminal, Broad Street Station, and the Greyhound Depot).

• The Reading Lines also provided bus transportation from their rail station on South Clinton Street, bound for Lansdale, Lambertville, Jenkintown and Langhorne. In 1929 the Reading Transportation Company erected a fireproof garage at 150 South Clinton St., close to the train station to service and overhaul motor coaches.
• Today Doylestown is served by SEPTA bus route 55 to Philadelphia, Trans-Bridge Lines to New York City, and Greyhound Bus Lines to Easton.
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