Transportation Book reviews and recommendations

"This book covers both city-operated and private operations in New York City in the period from 1945 to 1975, as suggested in the title. I particularly welcome the coverage of those private operators, because I grew up in the area where the Surface Transportation Corporation operated all the service (and some of my even younger days were in Av. B & East Broadway Transit Co. territory). The book is a very good collection of photos from all the major and most of the minor bus operators in New York City during the specified era (it omits Pioneer, a one-route operator in Brooklyn), though only in black and white. (Obviously at least SOME of the photos were taken in color: one of the photos in the book is a B&W version of the same picture that graces the cover!) It's true that I'd want a lot more text, with history and route details. But those are my only quibbles. "