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Shore Bus Lines

company · active 1946

The bus operator serving Ocean City in the 1946 season, which stopped running before 1 October. On 9 September the council, noting that 'the busses having quit', told its secretary to write Mr. Colonell and ask why he had quit before October; the reply read on 1 October came from Shore Bus Lines. At the same meeting the clerk read a letter from Holcom Bailey asking for a permit or franchise for bus service, and by 22 October the Maryland Public Service Commission was corresponding with the town about a permit to Colonell.

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  1. 1946 · 1946-09-09

    Ocean City's buses simply stopped before the season was out in 1946, and the council had to write and ask the operator why.

    'The busses having quit, Secretary was told to write Mr. Colonell as to why he quit before October 1st.' The answer came on 1 October, when the clerk read a letter from Shore Bus Lines in reply, along with letters from Holcom Bailey asking for a permit or franchise for bus service - a rival already applying for the run. By 22 October the matter had gone up to the Maryland Public Service Commission, whose letter regarding a permit to Colonell was read to the council. It is a quiet end to the fight that consumed the town in 1944 and 1945, when a bus terminal was refused outright in May 1944, granted 2-1 in February 1945 over a public meeting that voted 26 to 14 against it, and pressed in March 1946 to keep its office open and add an extra daily trip.

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    Public Service Commission of MarylandRed Star Motor Coaches, Inc.

    Source · checked 2026-08-15